INFOSYS
182AC. American Cultures: Print, Literacy, Power: To 1900
Mary
Kay Duggan, Dept. of Music;
Fall 2005, 3
units, MWF 11, 123 Wheeler Hall. Office Hours: Mon. 4-5; Fri.
10-11, 202 Morrison Hall.
Required Texts Walter Ong.
Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. NY: Routledge, 1982. Reader. Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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Introduction to the course and the field of the history of reading, printing, technology, and cultural studies |
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Wed. Aug. 31 |
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Ong, Orality,
especially Chap. 3-5 |
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Sept. 2 |
Ong, psychodynamics of orality; apply psychodynamics to Reader, #1, Oratory of N. Amer. Indians. |
Ong, Orality, especially Chap. 3-5 |
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Sept. 5 |
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Wed. Sept. 7 |
Ong. Slave tales, the trickster. Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus . Tar Baby without dialect. Native American trickster tales (Wile E. Coyote) |
Reader #2, Levine |
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Sept. 9 |
Levine, levels of meaning in Br'er Rabbit; Graff |
Reader #2, Levine |
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Sept. 12 |
Literacy in |
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Sept. 14 |
Review for quiz: Ong, slave tales, literacy. Discussion examples, Indian orations. |
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Sept. 16 |
Quiz. |
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Sept. 19 |
Intro. to
the |
Reader #5, Simmons |
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Sept. 21 |
Pocahontas and John
Smith, reality and fiction. |
Reader #6, Gleach |
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Sept. 23 |
Missionary goals and printing. John Eliot. (Winship: The Cambridge Press, 1638-1692; 1945) |
Reader #9, Eliot |
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Sept. 26 |
Film: a seventeenth-century press (The Plantin-Moretus
Museum, |
Handout in class |
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Sept. 28 |
The captivity narrative, Eliot |
Reader #8, Wyss |
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Sept. 30 |
Education in early |
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Oct. 3 |
Education, case studies |
Reader #11, "To Learn Another Way." Reader #12, Cornelius. Reader #13, Sandos. |
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Oct.5 |
Class discussion. Review |
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Oct.10 |
QUIZ |
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Oct. 12 |
Uncle Tom's Cabin and spin-offs on the web. Also Library of Congress material on Uncle Tom's Cabin. Abolitionist newspapers, though not the National Era. Historic maps. |
Uncle Tom's Cabin |
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Oct. 14 |
Publishing a bestseller. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. |
Reader #14, Coultrap-McQuin |
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Oct. 17 |
Class discussion. Slave narratives. |
Uncle Tom's Cabin |
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Oct. 19 |
Information infrastructure. The System of Cities, 1790-1840. |
Reader #15, Pred |
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Oct. 24 |
Information infrastructure shaping |
Reader #16, Brown |
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Oct. 26 |
Information infrastructure shaping |
Reader #17, White Reader #18, John |
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Oct. 28 |
Review |
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Oct. 31 |
Quiz |
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Nov. 2 |
Newspapers and periodicals: Californios. Joaquin Murrietta |
Reader #19, Almaguer. Reader #20, Pitt |
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Nov. 4 |
Web research for the Final Project. Notes on final project , project ideas. Newspapers, Indian. |
Reader 21, Murphy |
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Nov. 7 |
Newspapers, Black, Chinese (Reader 23). The image in print (engraving, woodcut, photograph, newspaper, magazine, sheet music, advertising, poster). |
Reader 22, Hutton; Reader 24, Bunch. |
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Nov. 9 |
Edward S. Curtis, photographer of Native Americans. Case study. |
Videos: Anne Makepeace, "Coming to Light: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians" (2000) "In the Land of the War Canoes" (1914) |
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Nov. 11 |
Review. Turn in final project topic and abstract. Notes on final project. |
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Nov. 14 |
QUIZ |
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Nov. 16 |
Introduction: |
Reader #25, Takaki |
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Nov. 18 |
The Chinese in |
Reader #25, Takaki |
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Nov. 21 |
The American image of the Chinese and politics |
Reader #26, Miller |
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Nov. 23 |
A missionary to the Chinese speaks for them in print: Otis Gibson. |
Reader #27, Gibson |
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Nov. 25 |
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Nov. 28 |
Class discussion. |
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Nov. 30 |
Review. |
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Dec. 2 |
QUIZ |
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Dec. 5-7-9 |
Student presentations summarizing final projects |
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Dec. 12 |
Final paper due. Either turn it in in class on Friday or slide it under door, Room 202 Morrison Hall, before 5PM. |
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