Hafta 114–20 Eyl
Amerikan kimliği ve Yerli yaratılış anlatıları
Sarah Song, “What does it mean to be an American?” Daedalus, Vol. 138, No. 2 (Spring 2009): 31-40. Excerpts from U.S.President Barack Obama’s “Inaugural Address” (2009) (handout) A Brief Lecture on an overview of the literary periods in American Literature: Literature to 1750 (2-27) Native American Origin and Creation Stories (29-33) “Origin of Folk Stories (Seneca)” (34-36) “A Tale of the Foundation of the Great Island, Now North American, The Two Infants Born, and the Creation of the Universe (Tuscarora)” (37-40) “Wohpe and the Gift of the Pipe (Lakota)” (48-50) “Native American Stories through a Modern Lens” (54) N. Scott Momaday, “The Becoming of the Native: Man in America Before Columbus” (55-59)
Sarah Song, "What does it mean to be an American?"Barack Obama, "Inaugural Address" (2009)Native American Origin and Creation StoriesN. Scott Momaday, "The Becoming of the Native"
Hafta 221–27 Eyl
Keşifler, Columbus ve Yerli Halklar
Explorations and Early Encounters (61-65) Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) (66-68), “Letter of Columbus, Describing the Results of His First Voyage” (68-73) Benjamin Franklin, “Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America” (821-824) (18th century piece on Native Americans) Readings: Howard Zinn, “Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress” (1-22) Howard Zinn, “As Long As Grass Grows or Water Runs” (124-146)
Christopher ColumbusBenjamin FranklinHoward ZinnNative Americans
Hafta 328 Eyl – 4 Eki
Sömürge yerleşimleri ve Puritan edebiyatı
Colonial Settlements (93-106) Captain John Smith (1580-1631) (106-109), From The Generall Historie of Virginia (110-119) Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) (167-169), “An Epitaph on My Dear and Ever-Honoured Mother…” (176-177), “The Flesh and The Spirit” (178-180), “To My Dear and Loving Husband” (182) “Bradstreet through a Modern Lens” (187-188) Mary Rowlandson (1636-1711) (190-192), From The Sovereignty and Goodness of God (192-203) Readings: Puritan settlers--“The Founding of New England”
Captain John SmithAnne BradstreetMary RowlandsonThe Founding of New England
Hafta 45–11 Eki
Sömürge dönemi günlükleri: Sewall ve Knight
American Contexts: Colonial Diaries and Journals (252-253) Samuel Sewall (1652-1730) (253-254), From The Diary of Samuel Sewall (253-259) Sarah Kemble Knight (1666-1727) (265), From The Private Journal of a Journey… (266-270)
Samuel SewallThe Diary of Samuel SewallSarah Kemble KnightThe Private Journal of a Journey
Hafta 512–18 Eki
Amerikan edebiyatı 1750-1830: Edwards, Franklin, Equiano
American Literature 1750-1830 (312-333) Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) (276-278), “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (291-303) “Edwards Through a Modern Lens” (306-307) Writing Colonial Lives, Introduction (335-340) Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) (340-343), From The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Part Two (361-371) “Franklin Through a Modern Lens” (372-375) Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797) (414-416), from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, chapter two (416-426)
Jonathan EdwardsSinners in the Hands of an Angry GodBenjamin FranklinOlaudah Equiano
Hafta 619–25 Eki
Amerika fikrinin doğuşu ve bağımsızlık yazıları
American Contexts: ‘To Begin With the World Over Again’: The Emerging Idea of ‘America’ (427-429) J.Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1735-1813) (429-430), “What is an American?” from Letters from an American Farmer (430-433) Thomas Paine (1737-1809) (437-438), from Common Sense (438-441) Literature for a New Nation (467-475) Recommended reading: “‘Who Reads an American Book?’: Calls for a National Literature” (476-478) James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) (493), From Notions of the Americans (493-494) Readings: “The Struggle For Independence, 1763-1783” Howard Zinn, “Tyranny is Tyranny” (59-75) Howard Zinn, “A Kind of Revolution” (76-101)
CrevecoeurThomas PaineCommon SenseHoward Zinn
Hafta 726 Eki – 1 Kas
Tatil, ders yok
Holidays, No Classes
Hafta 82–8 Kas
1830-1865 Amerikan edebiyatı ve Midterm Exam
American Literature, 1830-1865 (588-605) The Era of Reform (607-616) Philip Freneau (1752-1832) (495-496), “On the Emigration to America” (499-501) Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) (503-504), “On Being Brought from Africa to America” (505-506) “Wheatley through a Modern Lens” (517) Washington Irving (1783-1859) (520-523), “The Author’s Account of Himself” (523-525) & “Rip Van Winkle” (530-542) Midterm Exam--November 5, 2013 (Wednesday) (Based on all the texts assigned during weeks 1-6)
Phillis WheatleyWashington IrvingRip Van WinkleMidterm Exam
Hafta 99–15 Kas
Antebellum reform söylemi ve kölelik karşıtlığı
American Contexts: “I Will be Heard”: The Rhetoric of Antebellum Reform (617-618) David Walker (1785-1830), from An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World (619-621) Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), from “Declaration of Sentiments” (629-632) Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) (637), “Speech to a Women’s Rights Convention” (638) Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) (645-646), “Letter from New York” (647-653) Readings: Howard Zinn, “Drawing the Color Line” (23-38) Howard Zinn, “The Intimately Oppressed” (102-123) Recommended Reading: Linda K. Kerber, “Why Diamonds Really are a Girl’s Best Friend: Another American Narrative” Daedalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences 141.1 (Winter 2012): 1-12.
David WalkerElizabeth Cady StantonDeclaration of SentimentsSojourner Truth
Hafta 1016–22 Kas
Emerson, Thoreau ve Transcendentalism
Emerson, Thoreau & Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) (653-655), “Self-Reliance” (684-701) Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) (725-726), From Woman in the Nineteenth Century (727-733) Henry David Thoreau(1817-1862) (792-793), “Resistance to Civil Government” (794-809) Readings: Howard Zinn, “We Take Nothing By Conquest, Thank God” (147-166)
Ralph Waldo EmersonMargaret FullerHenry David ThoreauHoward Zinn
Hafta 1123–29 Kas
Kölelik ve özgürlük mücadelesi: Douglass
Slavery & the Struggle for Freedom Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) (855-857), from Narrative of the Life of F.Douglass, an American Slave, chs. 1-4 (865-876), 7 (881-884), 11 (909-917) “Douglass Through a Modern Lens” (923) African American Slave Songs (1800-1865) (925), “Roll, Jordan, Roll” (926-927), “Many Thousand Go” (927-928), “Go Down, Moses” (928) “Slave Songs through a Modern Lens” (931) Readings: Howard Zinn, “Slavery without Submission, Emancipation without Freedom” (167-205)
Frederick DouglassNarrative of the LifeAfrican American slave songsHoward Zinn
Hafta 1230 Kas – 6 Ara
İç Savaş'ın anlamları: Lincoln ve Whitman
American Contexts: “Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory”: The Meanings of the Civil War (1354-1356) Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) (1372), “The Gettysburg Address: Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg, 1863” (1373) & “Second Inaugural Address” (1374-1375) William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) (1382), “The Death of Lincoln” (1383) Walt Whitman (1819-1892) (1390), From Memoranda During the War (1390-1391)
Abraham LincolnThe Gettysburg AddressWilliam Cullen BryantWalt Whitman
Hafta 137–13 Ara
Sanayileşme çağında Hawthorne ve Melville
American Facts and Fiction (935-943) Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) (966-968), “My Kinsman, Major Molineux” (973-986) Industrialization: “The Age of Industry, 1865-1900” Herman Melville (1819-1891) (1072-1074), “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (1075-1101) Readings: Howard Zinn, “Robber Barons and Rebels” (247-289)
Nathaniel HawthorneMy Kinsman, Major MolineuxHerman MelvilleBartleby, the Scrivener
Hafta 1414–20 Ara
Yeni şiir sesleri: Whitman ve Dickinson
New Poetic Voices (1195-1201) Frances E. W. Harper (1825-1911) (1230-1231), “The Slave Woman” (1231-1232) Walt Whitman (1819-1892) (1236-1239), from “Song of Myself” Stanzas 1-6 (1240-1245), 24 (1257-1259), 50-52 (1284-1285) Walt Whitman, “I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing” (1289) New Poetic Voices continued “Whitman through a Modern Lens” (1311) Langston Hughes (1902-1967), “Old Walt” (1312) Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), “A Supermarket in California” (1312-1313) Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) (1314-1315), “Success is counted sweetest” (1318), “I felt a Funeral in My Brain” (1323-1324), “Much Madness is divinest sense” (1329), “I heard a Fly buzz, when I died, “ (1331), “Because I could not stop for death, “ (1338-1339) “Dickinson through a Modern Lens” (1350) Readings: Howard Zinn, “The Empire and the People” (290-313) Mourning Abraham Lincoln’s death: Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” stanzas 1-3 (1301) & stanzas 15-16 (1306-1307)
Walt WhitmanEmily DickinsonFrances E. W. HarperHoward Zinn