Reading Schedule

M Sept. 11

• Course Introduction

Early Chicana Feminism

• Selections from Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa (Read before arrival in Spain)
  • Chapter 1, The Homeland, Aztlán/El otro México
  • Chapter 2, Movimientos de rebeldía y las culturas que traicionan
  • “El sonavabitche”

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M Sept. 18

• Selections from Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa
  • Chapter 3, Entering into the Serpent
  • Chapter 7, La conciencia de la mestiza/Towards a New Consciousness

• Selections from Loving in the War Years by Cherríe Moraga
  • La Güera
  • “Later, She Met Joyce”
  • “Loving in the War Years”
  • “Salvation, Jesus, and Suffer”

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Stories of Growing Up

M Sept. 25

• The Moths and Other Stories by Helena Maria Viramontes (through “The Broken Web”)
• Presentation: “With the Sacredness of a Priest: The Body as Ritual Site of Feminist Knowledge in Helena María Viramontes’s ‘The Moths’” by Christina Maria Lopez  Kristen Graham

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M Oct. 2

• Fall Break

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M Oct. 9

• The Moths and Other Stories by Helena Maria Viramontes (finish book)

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 M Oct. 16

• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• Presentation: “’Writing Will Keep You Free:  Allusions to and Recreations of the Fairy Tale Heroine in The House on Mango Street” by Kelly Wissman  Sophie Friend

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Marriage

M Oct. 23

• “Woman Hollering Creek” (on class website)
• “The Husband Stitch” (on class website)
• Presentation: “Haunting the Borderlands: La Llorona in Sandra Cisneros’ ‘Woman Hollering Creek’” by Jacqueline Doyle  Sara Lyons
• Presentation: “Desire and Knowledge: Feminist Epistemology in Carmen María Machado’s ‘The Husband Stitch’” by Mary Angeline Hood  Kanyn Bloodworth

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 M Oct. 30

• Andalucia Trip

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Fighting Tyranny

M Nov. 6

• In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (through “Maria Teresa, 1953-1958”)

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M Nov. 13

• In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (finish book)
• Presentation: “Uncovering the Silent Crypts: Memory, Trauma, and Testimony in Julia Alvarez’s In The Time of the Butterflies” by Emily Robbins Mic Connor

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Newer Voices

M Nov. 20

• “a brief meditation on breath” by Yesenia Montilla (read and listen)
• “Notes on the Below” by Ada Limón (read and listen)
• “Maybe She’s Born With It, Maybe She Got Up Early” by Melissa Lozada-Oliva (read) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X7F0Boyg-4 (watch)
• “White Men on OK Cupid”(“Survival Tactics”) by Yesika Salgado (read)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C22-HC4E1M  (watch)

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M Nov. 27

• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
• Rough Outline of Paper #2 due in OAKS by class time (6 pm)

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W Dec. 6

• Final Version of Paper #2 due in OAKS by midnight

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