Unit 2 Schedule English 335 SP17

March Americanah 1-171

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March Americanah 171-228

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Debates in the Digital Humanities The Digital
Humanities or a Digital Humanism (429-437)

Read http://transom.org/2015/podcast-basics-
part-2-software/ (you may skip over the part
comparing various editing software in the middle,
but there is more after that, beginning with the
Universal Truths section)

March Americanah 228-341 Download Audacity

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Select two short passages from

Americanah, and record yourself
reading them aloud. After each
passage, spend 3 minutes
explaining what drew you to the
passage and how you interpret it at
this point in the text. Save your
recordings.

Read:
http://ccdigitalpress.org/transnati
onal/ch5.1.html,
http://ccdigitalpress.org/transnati
onal/ch5.2.html,
http://ccdigitalpress.org/transnati
onal/ch5.4.html

March Americanah 342-411

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Read: http://seunkolade.com/viewpoints/in-
search-of-the-nigerian-digital-humanist/
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Explore: http://nigerianostalgia.tumblr.com/

March Americanah 411-588 Select two more short passages from

28 Americanah, and record yourself
reading them aloud. After each
passage, spend 3 minutes
explaining what drew you to the
passage and how you interpret it at
this point in the text. Then, play the
recordings of your reading to a
friend in the class, and have them
explain how they would approach
the same passages differently. Save
your recordings.

March Jewish Diaspora Pre- and Post-WWII

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The Shawl, Cynthia Ozick
Two stories by Shalom Auslander
Nobel Lecture by Elie Weisel
Listen to:
http://www.npr.org/2017/01/31/512526162/fort
ress-america-what-we-can-and-cant-learn-from-
history

Excerpts from Elie Weisels Night and Primo Levis

Survival in Auschwitz

YOLOCAUST: http://yolocaust.de/
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-
38675835

April 4 Read List of Diasporas

TBD
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Fun with random tools:
http://voyant-tools.org/
http://textexture.com/user.php

April 6 Irish Diaspora Studio Time

Anne Enrights Della and Natalie Begin to select topic for final project:
A podcast with
Selections from The Granta Book of the Irish Short accompanying
Story timeline/timemap on a
diasporic literary tradition of
your choice.

April 11 Caribbean Diaspora

Selections from Jamaica Kincaid

Selections from Edwidge Danticat

April 13 Southeast Asian Diasporas

Selections from Monstress

Selection from Pyongyang

Read: http://transom.org/2013/edit-send-it-to-
the-basement/

Debates in the Digital Humanities 490-506

April 18 Middle East Diasporas

Selections from Tariq Ali

Selections from TBA

Discuss final project

Interviewing and Observing

April 20
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Library Research

April 25 Migritude

April 27 Migritude

Adding Sound
https://soundsofstonehenge.wordpress.com/soun
d-examples/
http://www.hbmpodcast.com/podcast/wet-slop-
plopwav-among-other-sounds

May 2

May 4 Final Project Due