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Group Presentation Assignments



Gilead, September 18 (historical and literary context): 1956; abolitionist movement particularly in Kansas and Iowa; John Brown; beliefs of John Calvin, Karl Barth, or Ludwig Feurbach; Christian Congregationalism; Biblical story of the prodigal son, Gilead of the Bible

 1. Robert F.   
2. Ben C.          
3. Joe G.          
4.

Gilead, September 20 (critical reception):
1. Carly E.          
2. Danielle W.         
3.

Mama Day, September 27 (biography of Gloria Naylor)
1. Aaron K.          
2. Michelle M.           
3. Adam G.               

Mama Day, October 2  (historical context) African American midwifery, African and African-American medicine (conjuring, herbal medicine, voo-doo, stereotype of the “conjure woman”); the Gullah people and culture; Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina
1. Caroline N.          
2. Austin T.           
3. Mary S.           
4. Krista R.

Mama Day, October 4 (critical reception)
1. Janvier H.          
2. Whitney M.           

Mama Day, October 9 (literary context): The Tempest by Shakespeare; literary tradition of African American women’s fiction
1. Jalisa D.          
2. Kristen D.          

Never Let Me Go, November 1 (biography of Ishiguro)
1.          
2. Joseph R.          
3. Morgan R.

NLMG, November 6 (dystopian literary tradition: Brave New World by Huxley, Orwell, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood)
1. Parker J.          
2. Michael W.          

NLMG, November 8 (critical reception)
1. Brandi N.          
2. Gracia A.           
3. Ryan B.

NLMG, November 13 (other stuff: bioethics and cloning; organ donation)
1. Cydney P.          
2. Rachael M.           

Maus, November 27 (history: Poland and WWII, holocaust, Auschwitz, Jewish refugees in the US after WWII)
1. Callie R.          
2. Ryan S.           
3. Emily M.

Maus, November 29 (biography of Art Spiegelman and the literary tradition of graphic novel)
1. Jessica S.           
2. Jessica S.           
3. Nicole W.            
4. Sarah S.

Maus, December 4 (critical reception)
1. Matt R.          
2. Dusten C.          
3. Roy C.


  
 updated fall 2007