English 461/547: Women's Rhetoric and American Slavery

SYLLABUS

FIRST WEEK:
Jan. 15 -- Introduction to Course
Jan. 17 -- Numbered Speeches in Foner and Branham, Lift Every Voice: Frederick Douglass 46; Maria Stewart 20, 22; Clarissa Lawrence 31; Lucy Stanton 42; Sojourner Truth 44, 47, 83, 90; Sarah Stanley 51; Francis Ellen Watkins [Harper] 53, 81; Mary Ann Shadd [Cary] 56, 93; Sarah Remond 58, 66

SECOND WEEK:
Jan. 22 -- Speeches in Lift Every Voice
Jan. 24 -- Speeches in Lift Every Voice

THIRD WEEK:
Jan. 29 -- Speeches in Lift Every Voice
Jan. 31 -- Nell Painter, Sojourner Truth

FOURTH WEEK:
Feb. 5 -- Painter, Sojourner Truth
Feb. 7 -- Painter, Sojourner Truth

FIFTH WEEK:
Feb. 12 -- Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave
Girl
Feb. 14 -- Jacobs, Incidents

SIXTH WEEK:
Feb. 19 -- Jacobs, Incidents
Feb. 21 -- Jacobs, Incidents

SEVENTH WEEK:
Feb. 26 -- Larry Ceplair, Public Years of Sarah and Angelina
Grimke
Feb. 28 -- Ceplair, Public Years

EIGHTH WEEK:
March 5 -- Ceplair, Public Years
March 7 -- Ceplair, Public Years

NINTH WEEK:
March 12 - Spring Break
March 14 - Spring Break

TENTH WEEK
March 19 -- Toni Morrison, Beloved
March 21 -- Morrison, Beloved

ELEVENTH WEEK:
March 26 -- NO CLASS; DRAFT OF TERM PAPER DUE FOR TEACHER
CONFERENCE
March 28 -- Morrison, Beloved

TWELFTH WEEK:
April 2 -- Morrison, Beloved
April 4 -- Morrison, Beloved

THIRTEENTH WEEK:
April 9 -- Octavia Butler, "Bloodchild" (short story--handout)
April 11 -- Octavia Butler, Kindred

FOURTEENTH WEEK:
April 16 -- Butler, Kindred
April 18 -- Butler, Kindred

FIFTEENTH WEEK:
April 23 -- Butler, Kindred
April 25 -- TERM PAPER DUE; bell hooks, Sisters of the Yam

SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH WEEKS:
April 30 -- hooks, Sisters of the Yam
May 1 -- READING DAY
Fri. May 3 -- FINAL EXAM, 10:00 a.m.
May 9 -- COMMENCEMENT

NOTE: Syllabus is subject to change as conditions dictate.
Do NOT, however, expect due dates to change.