Ya.

Just finished compiling my course reader/book selections for Latin American Lit.
12-week course. In addition to the reader, I'm ordering One Hundred Years of Solitude (Márquez) and Death and the Maiden (Dorfman). And for pure joy and inspiration: The Book of Questions (Neruda).

I have more material than I can use, probably, and that's OK. I'm all about flexibility in the plan even (especially) when it means doing less in order to do more.

I'm actually starting to get excited about the results after months of feeling anxious about how much I don't know, and looking forward to finding out what effect my choices will have on the students.






:: Table of Magical Contents ::


Jorge Luis Borges
"The Garden of Forking Paths"
"The Circular Ruins"
"Funes the Memorious"
"Borges and I"

Julio Cortázar
"Axolotl"
"Letter to a Young Lady in Paris"
"A Yellow Flower"
"The Night Face Up"
"Continuity of Parks"

Clarice Lispector
"The Chicken"
"The Imitation of the Rose"
"The Smallest Woman in the World"
"Preciousness"

Luisa Valenzuela
"Dirty Words"
"The Best Shod"
"The Censors"
"Sursum Corda"
"The Gift of Words"
"Vision Out of the Corner of One Eye"
"Legend of the Self Sufficient Child"
"All About Suicide"
"Cat's Eye"

Selections from The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
"Prologue"
"Two Words"
'The Schoolteacher's Guest"
'The Gold of Tomás Vargas"
"Clarisa"
"Tosca"
"The Little Heidelberg"




The Magic and the Real
"An Act of Vengeance" :: Isabel Allende
"Sophie and the Angel" :: Dora Alonso
"Culinary Lesson" :: Rosario Castellanos
"Park Cinema" :: Elena Poniatowska
"The Tale of the Velvet Pillows" :: Marta Traba







WHEW.