Taught by: Professor C. Fred Alford
Course Meets: Tue, 4-6:45pm
(Only prerequisite is that you be a GVPT major)
Idea of the Course
In one way or another, all the books and short stories in
this course are all about outsiders.
Some are outsiders by choice, most not.
Each is an outsider in a different way. Pecola, the protagonist of Toni Morrison’s "The Bluest
Eye," a young black girl finally driven mad, only wants blue eyes. Ben, of Doris Lessing’s "Ben in the World" (a work
of science fiction) only wants to find somewhere he belongs. Gregor Samsa, in Kafka's short story "The
Metamorphosis," wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a
giant cockroach.
Required books:
Doris Lessing, The Fifth Child
Doris Lessing, Ben in the World (sequel to the
first book)
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (and
"Politics and the English Language," provided)
Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth (collected short
stories)
Albert Camus, The Stranger
Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener (short
story)
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis (short story)
Toni Morrison, Bluest Eye
Course will be discussion/seminar format.Grade will be based on class presentations, weekly comments on ELMS and 2 short 4-5 pages papers.
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