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Weekly Readings - Ethnic
Literature
- Xopan Cuicatl, "Song of Spring"
[Nahuatl, Spanish, English]. LC 282-4.
- Nezahualcoyotl. "The Painted Book." Technicians
233-35, 554-5. (x)
- Codex Boturini. "The Origin of the Mexica
Aztecs." Technicians 236-9, 555-6.
- "American Indian Poetry"
[selections], Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 42-45 (x)
2,3. Precortesian Traditional Literature
- "Quetzalcoatl," Four Masterworks
[Nahuatl]
- Anaya, Rodolfo. [Selection: Lord of the
Dawn: The Legend of Quetzalcoatl] 125-140 (x)
- Sahagún, Bernadino. Florentine Codex:
General History of the Things of New Spain. 9-11.
- "Introduction," The Hungry Woman,
Bierhorst. 3-18 (x)
- Young, Karl. "Notation and the Art of
Reading," Book. 25-30. (x)
4,5. Precortesian Traditional Literature -
Part 2
- Popol Vuh [Quiché Maya]
- Silko, Leslie Marmon. "Notes on Mixtec
and Maya Screenfolds, Picture Books of Preconquest Mexico," Yellow Woman.
155-65. (x)
6. Oral Poetry and Ritual
- Sabina, Maria. "The Midnight
Velada," Technicians. 62-4. (x)
- Calderón, Eduardo. "Raising the
Mediating Center and the Field of Evil with the Twenty-five Thousand Accounts and the
Chant of the Ancients." Technicians. 255-9, 559-61.
- Munn, Henry. "Writing in the Imagination
of an Oral Poet," Book 251-56. (x)
- Ong, Walter. "Some Psychodynamics of
Orality," Orality and Literacy. 30-77. (x)
- Rothenberg, Jerome. "Ethnopoetics," Princeton.
388-89. (x)
7. Myths and the Feminine
- [La Llorona texts,] Literature Chicana =LC.
Shular, Ybarra-Fraustro, and Sommers, eds. 97-108. (x)
- Fuentes, Carlos. "The Legacy of la
Malinche," LC 304-6. (x)
- [Guadalupe selections: Goddess of the
Americas.] Castillo, xv-xxi; Alarcón, 32-33; Cisneros, 46-51; Anzaldúa, 52-55; Mora,
88-91; Castellanos, 147-150; Paz 197-208. (x)
- [Selections: The Hungry Woman],
Bierhorst. 23-25, 119-147. (x)
8. Contemporary Chicano/a Fiction
- Anaya, Rodolfo. Bless Me Ultima.
- Sollors, "Ethnicity," CTLS
288-305
- Zea, Leopoldo. "Lo Mexicano" LC.
294-99. (x)
9,10. Corridos and Folklore
- With His Pistol in His Hand. Américo
Paredes. ["The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez,"] (x)
- "Corrido de José Apodaca," LC.
177-78. (x)
- "El Hijo Desobediente," LC.
179. (x)
- Appiah, "Race," CTLS 274-87
(x)
11,12. Contemporary Chicano/a Poetry
- Gonzales, Rodolfo Corky. "Yo Soy
Joaquin;" (x)
- Alurista. [Select poems from Floricanto]
(x)
- Cervantes, Lorna Dee. [Select poems from Emplumado]
(x)
- Anzaldúa, Gloria. [Select poems from Borderlands]
(x)
13. Native American Poetry and Song of the
Southwest
- "The Night Chant," Four
Masterworks [Navajo]
- Molina, Felipe and Larry Evers. [Selections: Yaqui
Deer Songs.] (x)
- Ortiz, Simon. [Poems from Woven Stone.]
- Gunn Allen, Paula. " Something Sacred
Going on out There: Myth and Vision in American Indian Literature," The Sacred
Hoop. (x)
14, 15, 16. Native American Narrative of the
Southwest
- Silko, Leslie Marmon. Ceremony.
- Silko, Leslie Marmon. "Language and
Literature," Yellow 48-59 (x)
- Silko, Leslie Marmon. "Yellow
Woman," Yellow 60-72 (x)
- Finding the Center, Dennis Tedlock,
trans. [Zuni Tales] (x)