World Literature: Coming of Age Theme: ENLT 176, Instructor: Grover Furr

http://www.shss.montclair.edu/english/furr/wlhpf97.html

Welcome to the Home Page for Dr Grover Furr's course ENLT 176, "World Literature: Coming of Age Theme"

I plan to put on this page links to all kinds of course information and other material related to the readings in this course.
Please let me know if you find any relevant sites on the Internet that other students should know about.

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ORGANIZATION: This page has the following sections:

The Syllabus for the course. I've already handed it out in class to you, but you can always consult it here as well.
The Schedule of Required Readings.
Guidelines for the Short Papers on each novel
The Eight Main Themes which I present to you at the beginning of the course, and which you'll find in these and many, many other novels and literature from formerly colonial cou ntries. NOTE: This will not be available until after the first two full classes, when I'll present them and we can discuss them.
The Grading System for the Biweekly Assignments

I will email you the assignments at the end of the previous class, so you can do them on time. When you have done an assignment, you can delete the message I sent you giving you that assignment, because you'll always be able to find it here if you sho uld ever want it again.
If you have missed some time for any reason, you'll be able to go back here to see what passages your fellow students have been writing about.

Links to other sites that are relevant to our course.

This is really what you'll find on the rest of this page -- you can get to the other materials by "jumping" from the links above

Imperialism

Here are some good readings that will help you understand the concept of imperialism, how it works, and how important it is to understand it if you are to ever understand what's going on in the world!

"Imperialism 101", Chapter One of Michael Parenti's book Against Empire.
"Imperial Domination". How imperialism works in our own day -- "neoimperialism". From the same book as the last link.

Homework

I will post all writing assignments on this page, at this spot, whose 'bookmark' is 'hw' (in lower case, without the ' '). The URL of this, the "homework" section of the World Literature Home Page, is: http://www.shss.montclair.edu/english/furr/wlhpf97.htmlv#hw. Create a 'bookmark' of your own to this URL, and you go directly to this part of the page, and don't have to 'scroll down' to find the homework assignments.

On Guy Endore, Babouk:

For Friday, September 19, 1997
For Tuesday, September 23.
For Friday, September 26 -- no additional assignment -- we're going to "catch up" a bit. Make sure you've read everything, though.
For Tuesday, September 30

On Sembene Ousmane, God's Bits of Wood:

Here is a list of all the major, and almost all of the minor, characters in the novel, along with a short description of who they are and where they live. You may want to print it out to have it handy.

On Ngugi wa-Th'iongo, Matigari:

On Manlio Argueta, One Day of Life:

For Friday, November 14.
Remember: we have no class on Friday, 11/14. However, your assignment should still be emailed both to me and to your group.
For Tuesday, November 18.
For Friday, November 21.
For Tuesday, November 25.
For Tuesday, December 2.

On Barrios de Chungara, Let Me Speak!:

For Tuesday, December 9.

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