Week 13: Teaching World Literature

In class

• Sophia Donadio’s teaching demo:
  • Select texts on colonialism:
    • Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o “Decolonizing the Mind”
    • Gabriel García Márquez “The Autumn of the Patriarch”
    • James Baldwin “Stranger in a Village” 
    • Hala Alyan from Hijra “The Letter Home”
• Discussion of World Literature:
  • Jorge Luis Borges, “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote“
  • “A World of Literature“
  • Concrete Poetry
    • "o" by Eugen Gomringer
    • "beba coca cola" by Decio Pignatari
    • "poema bomba" by Haraldo de Campos
    • Flowers in Concrete by Mary Ellen Solt
    • Correcaminos by Eduardo Darino
    • Anipoemas by Ana María Uribe

Assignments (Next class: Comics and Multimodal Literature)

• Readings for Jessie Gada's teaching demo (complete in order):
  • Explore Album Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys from My Chemical Romance
  • Watch Music Videos
    • Na Na Na
    • SING
  • Read Comic The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: California from Dark Horse (in shared folder)
• Theoretical Readings:
  • Watch 2-3 videos from this playlist.
  • Chapters 1-3 of Understanding Comics
  • "INITIATION TO READING MULTIMODAL NARRATIVES AN INTRODUCTION TO UNDERSTANDING COMICS"