Reader response meets and challenges authorial assumption. First assignment discussed, distributed, debated. I mean the experience of be-ing. The politics of separatism and the evolution of sisterhood. Students will select, for class discussion, different ethnic and cultural groups, and discuss how the voices represented in these poems and short stories, both complement and question notions of essentiality.
Students begin writing their individual final projects.
Students and professor will determine the nature and qualities of the in class debate. Professor and individual students will make final the plans for the individual projects. Students will be graded on their in-class performance in the discussion of these books. The pacing and pairing of the readings from the texts to be defined in the class. Students will meet outside the class to define strategy, etc.