Date
In Class
Reading Due
Week 1
W 9/7 Introduction
F 9/9
“On the Question of Value” (course pack)
Week 2
M 9/12
W 9/14
F 9/16
Personal overview: 1 page “My knowledge and
feelings about Haiti”
Create Dangerously, “Create Dangerously: The Immigrant
Artist” p 1-20, “Daughters of Memory” p 59-72
Create Dangerously, “I Speak Out” p 73-86, “Welcome Ghosts”
p 127-136
Create Dangerously , “Acheiropoietos” p 137-151, “Our
Guernica” p 153-174
Week 3
M 9/19 Review of reading, content, meaning, interpretation/CLASS PRESENTATIONS
W 9/21
“How to Read Imaginative Literature,” “Suggestions for
Reading Stories, Plays, and Poems” (course pack)
F 9/23
Week 4
M 9/26
Assignments
Synthesis essay, 2 pages: Choose one or two
essays from “Create Dangerously” and discuss
the author’s point of view and possible political,
social, and/or cultural contribution to the
subject.
“The Writing of Disaster in Haiti” (course pack)

http://hemi.nyu.edu/hemi/en/e-misferica71/mcalister
 http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/18/mcalister
.haiti.faith/index.html
“Poster Child, with Lovely Nicolas,” “Why Does Haiti Suffer So
Much?”
W 9/28 Visit from Prof. Liza McAlister,
discuss “Sacred Stories from the Haitian Diaspora” (available online)
F 9/30
“Pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue” and “Reckoning in Haiti”
(course pack)
Week 5
M
Krik? Krak!, “Children of the Sea” p 1-30, “Nineteen Thirty10/03
Seven” p 31-50
View YouTube,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ahOzWSQBiY
Reaction essay, 2 pages: of class visit, talk, and
readings
W
10/05
F
10/07
Krik? Krak!, “The Missing Peace” p 101-122, “Seeing Things
Simply” p 123-142
Krik? Krak!, “Night Women” p 81-88, “New York Day Woman”
p 143-144,
Week 6
M
Review.
Krik? Krak!, “Women Like Us” p 217-224.
10/10 Questions/I
nterpretatio
ns/Elaborati
ons
W
Breath, Eyes, Memory, p 3-61
10/12
F
Breath, Eyes, Memory, p 65-89
10/14
Week 7
M
Breath, Eyes, Memory, p 93-126
10/17
W 10/
Finish Breath, Eyes, Memory
19
F
“What Happens When Memory Hurts” (course pack)
10/21
Week 8
M
http://hemi.nyu.edu/hemi/en/e-misferica-71/ulysse
10/24
“Haiti’s Solidarity with Angels”
W
Visit from Prof. Gina Ulysse
10/26
F
10/28
Week 9
M
10/31
W
“The Story of the Haitian People” (course pack)
The Farming of Bones, p 1-66
The Farming of Bones , p 67-97
Personal opinion piece, 2 pages: How does
theater impact my understanding of Haitian
reality?
11/02
F
The Farming of Bones, p 98-166
11/04
Week 10
M
“Meanings of Memory: A Literary Intervention to Confront
11/07
Persistent Violence” (course pack)
W
Finish The Farming of Bones
11/09
F
Review.
11/11 Questions/I
nterpretatio
ns/Elaborati
ons
Week 11
M
Visit from Writing Center. Workshop: “Writing as a tool for thinking”
11/14
W
What makes a good thesis
11/16
F
Visit to the Library
11/18
Week 12 THANKSGIVING WEEK, NO CLASSES
Week 13
M
Brother, I’m Dying, p 3-42
11/28
W
Brother, I’m Dying, p 43-75
11/30
F
Brother, I’m Dying, p 76-96
12/02
Week 14
M
Finish Brother, I’m Dying
12/05
W
“Terra incognita: Mapping the detention center in Edwidge
12/07
Danticat's Brother, I'm Dying and the US Supreme Court ruling
Thesis of short (5 page) paper
NB ONLY THE THESIS IS DUE
Outline of literary analysis due
Boumediene v. Bush,” by Nicole Waller (e-reserve)
F
Review. Questions/Interpretations/Elaborations
12/09
Week 15
M
In class presentations
12/12
W
In class presentations
12/14
Final paper due