HEL 227 - Introduction to World Fiction
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• Introduction, 1
• A Story for Children, Svava Jakobsdottir (Iceland), 381
• Swaddling Clothes, Mishima Yukio (Japan), 588
• The Daily Woman, Niaz Zaman (Bangladesh), 960

Question #4, 386
Question #1, 592
Question #1, 965

• The Story of the Hour, Kate Chopin (United States), 176
• A Rose for Emily, William Faulkner (United States), 238
• The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (United States), 284
• A Meeting in the Dark, Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Kenya), 684

Question #1, 178
Question #5, 245
Question #4, 295
Question #2, 693

• A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Connor (United States), 726
• Black Girl, Sembene Ousmane (Senagal), 767
• The Prophet's Hair, Salman Rushie (India/England), 814
• The Lottery, Shirley Jackson (United States), 374

Question #4, 736
Question #2, 776
Question #3, 823
Question #2, 380

Critical Essay #1 due

• And of Clay Are We Created, Isabel Allende (Chile), 46
• A Hand in the Grave, Ghassan Kanafani (Palestine), 425

Question #2, 53
Question #2, 431

• The Courtship of Mr. Lyon, Angela Carter (England), 135
• Eveline, James Joyce (Ireland), 412
• Gimpel the Fool, Isaac Bashevis Singer (Poland/United States), 832
• In Africa There Is a Kind of Spider, Yvonne Vera (Zimbabwe), 920

Question #2, 143
Question #1, 416
Question #4, 842
Question #1, 925

• The Falling Girl, Dino Buzzati (Italy), 113
• The Birthmark, Nathaniel Hawthorne (United States), 344
• A Report to an Academy, Franz Kafka (Czechoslovakia), 417
• Half a Day, Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt), 505

Question #5, 116
Question #5, 355
Question #4, 424
Question #2, 508

• The Unseeing Eye, Hanan Al-Shaykh (Lebanon/England), 54
• Island of Manhattan, Rene' Marque's (Puerto Rico), 521
• The Appointment in Samarra, William Somerset Maugham (England), 540
• In the Shadow of War, Ben Okri (Nigeria), 756

Question #2, 56
Question #4, 528
Question #4, 541
Question #1, 759

S P R I N G   B R E A K
March 8 - 13

Critical Essay #2 due

• The Street Sweeping Show, Feng Jicai (China), 266
• Death and Transfiguration of a Teacher, Marfa Teresa Solari (Peru), 843

Question #3, 249
Question #1, 843

• The Kugelmass Episode, Woody Allen (United States), 37
• The Swimmer, John Cheever (United States), 154
• Betel Nut Is Bad Magic for Airplanes, John Kasaipwalova (Papue New Guinea), 432
• A Horse and Two Goats, R. K. Narayan (India), 672

Question #1, 45
Question #1, 162
Question #2, 431
Question #3, 683

• Country Lovers, Nadine Gordimer (South Africa), 331
• Another Holiday for the Prince, Elizabeth Jolley (England/Australia), 407
• Recitatif, Toni Morrison (United States), 599
• I Stand Here Ironing, Tillie Olsen (United States), 760

Question #3, 337
Question #5, 411
Question #1, 612
Question #3, 766

• Dancing Girls, Margaret Atwood (Canada), 72
• A Father, Bharati Mukherjee (India/United States), 658
• The Blue Bouquet, Octavio Paz (Mexico), 790
• Everyday Use, Alice Walker (United States), 926

Question #1, 82
Question #1, 666
Question #1, 792
Question #4, 932

Theme:  Nature/Environment

• The Proof, Rodrigo Rey Ross (Guatemale), 810
• Yellow Woman, Leslie Marmon Silko (United States), 824

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• A White Heron, Sarah Orne Jewett (United States), 399
• Kew Gardens, Virginia Woolf (England), 954

Question #2, 813
Question #1, 831

Question #2, 406
Question #4, 959

• The Burning House, Ann Beattie (United States), 94
• The Gilded Six-Bits, Zora Neale Hurston (United States), 365
• Shiloh, Bobbie Ann Mason (United States), 529
• Rope, Katherine Anne Porter (United States), 805

Question #2, 104
Question #2, 373
Question #5, 539
Question #2, 809

• The Seamstress, Gabrielle-Sidonie Colette (France), 179
• My Mother, Jamaica Kincaid (Antigua/United States), 443
• Or Else, the Lightning God, Catherine Lim (Singapore), 482
• Why I Live at the P.O., Eudora Welty (United States), 933

Question #3, 182
Question #3, 446
Question #1, 490
Question #3, 942

Critical Essay #3 due