The Arabian Nights, Tr. Donald Richie, ed. Rutgers University Press, 1990. Death and the King's Horseman. The Black Jacobins.
Attendance is mandatory.
Come prepared with your own questions about these works and with your answers to questions asked the preceding week by your seminar leader. Lectures will allude to, put in contexts, or partially discuss some of these texts. You will have to write two papers and take a final exam. In principle, no make-up exams will be give, so plan your travels with an eye to the dates of the final. Traveling Stories Week 1.