Category Archives: World Literature

In my sections of World Lit this week, we’ll start looking at graphic narratives/novels. Students are reading Guy DeLisle’s Burma Chronicles for next week. 1. Literary terms to use when discussing comics/graphic narratives: panel, a single box in which dialogue … Continue reading →

This week we’ll be discussing Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden. In addition to reading the text, you can rent the 1994 film online (directed by Roman Polanski). 1) I usually have students, in groups, research the following topics to … Continue reading →

Sorry! Sorry!––I did not forget about you. This last week of September has ended more with a bang than a whimper. Anyway, here are some resources we use for discussion of Things Fall Apart. 1) Postcolonial Criticism. As we explore … Continue reading →

In World Literature this week we’re starting Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe), which I always think students will have already read but am always surprised, still, how many have not anymore. We always start, of course, with Yeats. I remember … Continue reading →

I’m teaching World Lit this semester both online and in person. We’ve switched to Blackboard 9 at school; Blackboard 9, how I loathe you. In addition to reviewing the syllabus and expectations for the course, the first week we look … Continue reading →