Sacred Monsters

Winter 2006 - Seminars

Dr. Marianne Wichmann-Bailey

The seminar on Caribbean and French literature will focus in Winter on the nexus of the Self, the role of the Artist, and Language:  its demiurgic potential and its shortcomings.

Assignments will include weekly seminar participation, two 5 - 6 page, comparative studies of your choice of authors, an one dramatic reading textual analysis.

Weeks:    Readings:

1

André Gide, The Immoralist

2

Antoinine Maillet, Pélagie

3

Refusal of the Shadow, collected essays

4

Antonin Artaud, selections

5

Aimé Césaire, Collected Poetry ( Univ. of California Press)

6

Albert Camus, Myth of Sisyphus and lyric essays

7

Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit, the Flies and other plays, as well as selected chapters  Saint Genet Actor and Martyr

8

Jean Genet, The Blacks

9

Driss Chraibi, Mother Spring

10

Daniel Maximin, Lone Sun

 

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