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LIT 224 Spring2020

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Welcome to LIT 224 Southwestern Literature!

"An American Sunrise"

"Eagle Poem"

"Once the World Was Perfect"

"Perhaps the World Ends Here"

12 March

timed writing prompt: What do you like about Joy Harjo's memoir, Crazy Brave?

What moments stay with you?

What does Harjo focus on? What moments does she include?

What does she leave out?

Leon McAuliffe

CHECK Joy Harjo's website for links to reviews of Crazy Brave, interviews with Harjo, and other excellent resources.

What is a personal memoir?

What do you expect to read when you read a memoir?

What do you expect to get out of a memoir?

Have you read any memoirs?

Which ones?

What did you like or dislike about the memoirs?

from The Truth of the Matter: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction by Dinty S. Moore:

“Make a list of six to ten events or circumstances in your own life, or the lives of those very close to you,

that still provoke your curiosity. Mine your own life for the events and circumstances that still raise questions

in your mind. Once you have the list (and this list should be private - don’t share it with others - and don’t

hold back because you think someone else will be looking), pick one of the questions on the list that you are

willing to explore.“

The Personal Memoir, Purdue OWL

5 March

Purdue OWL

"Creative Nonfiction: An Overview"

"Sub-genres of Creative Nonfiction"

"Ecocriticism (1960-Present)"

"Unified Community Advisory Board"

"Lydia Otero: Historian and Author"

27 Feb.

"The Legend of El Tiradito," Abraham Cooper, Zocalo Magazine, 10 Oct. 2012

"The El Tiradito - The Wishing Shrine Curse," Tucson Museum

"National Endowment for the Arts Big Read"

"About the NEA Big Read"

11 Feb.

MEET IN THE LIBRARY for a research session!

LIT 224 Library Guide

6 Feb.

Arte Contemporaneo de Oaxaca - Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery, 3 Feb.-13 March

Dissertation

The Hard Work of Remembering in Paule Marshall’s The Chosen Place, the Timeless People and Christa Wolf’s Kindheitsmuster. Supervisors: Professors Jane Marcus and Ramón Saldívar.

The work of memory in Marshall’s novel concerns the history of slavery on a fictional Caribbean island; the work of memory in Wolf’s novel concerns the history of fascism in Germany shortly before and during World War II. Following the feminist tenet that the personal is political, I claim that memory in these two novels always works simultaneously along personal and political lines, which are inextricably linked and continually inform and re-shape each other.

Welcome to the Rudolfo Anaya Digital Archive (University of New Mexico)

30 Jan.

"The Big Read: A Conversation with Rudolfo Anaya" (by Lawrence Bridges - long version) (26:38)

"Interview with Rudolfo Anaya - Bless Me, Ultima movie" (5:03)

28 Jan.

Guadalupe NM - images