FL224 -- World Literature of the Twentieth Century -- Spring 2009
Transnational Literature of Asia and the World
John Mertz (Associate Professor of Japanese)

Orientation
2009.01.08 Handout Mapping; Mignolo

2009.01.13 Handout Anderson quote
2009.01.15 Handout Wallerstein; Allen
2009.01.20 Handout Narrative Externalities, etc.

2009.01.22 Handout Philippines Chronology

2009.01.27 Handout Anderson; Kramer

2009.01.29 Handout Naipaul; Futabatei; Rizal; Burroughs

2009.02.05 Handout Soseki (Sanshiro); Paper Assignment

2009.02.10 Handout Benjamin quote

2009.02.12 Handout Gluck; Said; Russo-Japan War chronology

2009.02.17 Reading Ogasawara

2009.02.17 Handout Spencer

2009.02.19 First Papers Due

2009.02.24 Handout Dower, White

2009.02.26 Handout Swift, Hiraga, Yano

2009.03.10 Takeyama, Harp of Burma

2009.03.12 Narayan, The Guide

2009.03.17 Narayan, The Guide

2009.03.19 Narayan, The Guide

                   Su Tong, Nineteen Thirty-Four Escapes (part 1, part 2, part 3)

2009.03.24 Handout T.H.White on Honan Famine

                   Paper Assignment for March 31

2009.03.26 (class canceled)

2009.03.31 Handout: Indonesia chronology

2009.04.02 Toer, Escape

2009.04.07 Toer, Independence Day, Acceptance (part 1, part 2)

2009.04.09 Oe, A Personal Matter

2009.04.14 Handout: Defoe, Blake

2009.04.16 Oe, A Personal Matter

2009.04.21 Oe, A Personal Matter

2009.04.23 Paper Assignment for April 30