Schedule
LS2-210: Travel Writers & Travel Liars in Latin America
Theory
1
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1: Travel Writing the Genre: Early Modern & Colonial Travelers |
January
23: Introduction to Course
What
do travelers write about? How can we think of "travel writing" as
a historical genre? A literary genre? A cartographic genre? An illustrated
genre? How can we organize the content of travel writing and images
to compare/contrast over time & place? What kind of categories interest
writers (Politics? Society? Women? Religion? Food? Etc.)
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January
25: Western Travel Writing: A familiar refrain
Reading:
(1592) A Direction for Travelers, Justus Lipsius
Reading:
(1884) How to Choose a Travelling Companion
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The
Colonial Traveller
| Week
2: The Conqueror: Spaniard & Indian |
January
28: Spaniards in the New World I.
Reading:
(1493) The Log of Christopher Columbus, handout |
January
30: Spaniards in the New World II: Discussion
Reading:
(1519-
) Hernan Cortés, Letters from México, First Letter
Reading:
(1556)
Anonymous Conqueror, a Companion of Hernán Cortes, Narrative
of Some Things of New Spain, skim entire
Reading:
(1575)
Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Conquest of New Spain, pp. 7-42. |
| February
1: Computer Lab: Introduction to the World Wide Web: What it is,
how to use it; how to evaluate its content |
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Website:
Christopher
Columbus, Journey
Website: Columbus'
First Voyage: Map
Website: Sources
of 16th c. Explorers in the Yucatán (The Athena Review)
Website:
Conquistadors
(PBS)
Website:
The West (PBS)
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| Week
3: Outsider & Outlaw: The English Friar & The Pirate: Two European
Cultures |
February
4: English views of Spanish Society: the Black Legend begins
Reading:
(1648) Thomas Gage, and John Eric Sidney Thompson, Sir. Thomas
Gage's Travels in the new world, pp. 1-101 |
February
6: English Views of Spanish Society: Discussion/ Initial Discussion
of Website Organization
Reading:
(1684)
John Esquemeling, The Buccaneers of America: A true Account of
the most remarkable assaults…upon the coast of the West Indies, pp.14-38,
289-332. |
| February
8: Computer Lab: Introduction to Web Design using Dreamweaver
program (Webpage Setup, Intro to Links & Tables) |
| Website:
Brief
Description of Potosi, 1658 |
| Week
4: The Insider: Bureaucratic Supervision |
February
11: Investigators of the Crown/Developing a Bibliography
Reading:
(1749) Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa, Discourse and political
reflections on the kingdoms of Peru, Prologue, Chapter 1. |
February
13: Internal Travelers: Discussion
Reading:
(1749) Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa, Discourse and political
reflections on the kingdoms of Peru, Chapters 7-9. |
February
15: Computer Lab: Designing the Travelers of Latin America Webpage
I: Selecting Topics, Work on Links
* Due for Lab: Bring in 2 websites you've found with content or design
that might be useful for this project; Be prepared to discuss how
website is organized & why that's useful/not. |
Website::
Antonio de Ulloa--Index,
Bibliography (Spanish,
German)
Website: Antonio de Ulloa-Noticias
Americanas (in Spanish)
Website: Antonio de Ulloa-Timeline
of his life, by site interested in his work as Spanish governor
of Louisiana
Website: Jorge
Juan Foundation (some info avaiable in English; all available
in Spanish)
Additional Background: José
L. Terron Ponce: Los
Marinos-astrónomos españoles del siglo XVIII (1999)
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Theory
2
| Week
5: Travel Writing the Genre: In the Eras of Enlightenment & Imperialism |
February
18: Travelers & Modernity
Reading:
Start, Mary Louise Pratt, Imperial Eyes:Travel Writing and Transculturation |
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February
20: DISCUSSION: Imperial Eyes
Reading:
*Finish Pratt, Imperial Eyes
* Edward Said,"Through Gringo Eyes: With Conrad in Latin America,"
Harper's, 276 (1988):70-72.
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February
22: Computer Lab: Designing the Travelers of Latin America Webpage
II: Creating Sections (Work on Tables)
* Due for Lab: Bring in webpage on one of the works discussed in class
(1 page)(to include links, tables)
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Independence
& Beyond
| Week
6: The Diplomat & Adventurer: Early 19th c., Mid 19th c |
February
25: The Illustrating Traveler
Reading:
EXCERPTS
(1846) Stephens, J.L. & Catherwood, F. Incidents of travel
in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan
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February
27: The Adventuer (Discussion)
Reading:
EXCERPTS
(1846) Col. J. Anthony King, Twenty Four Years in the Argentine
Republic |
March
1 : Computer Lab: Web-Page Graphics: Scanning, Saving, Inserting,
& Creating
* Due in class: identify at least 2-3 websites with images you would
like to incorporate |
Website:Roger
S. Baldwin Jr., "Gold
Hunters of California: Tarrying in Nicaragua (1849)," The Century,
42:6 (October 1891): 911-932 .
Website:"The
Antiquities of Central America," in The United States Democratic
review, 9:38 (August 1841): 162-177.
Website:George Squier, "Adventures
& Observations in Nicaragua," The International magazine of literature,
art, and science. 3:4 (July 1851): 437-441.
Website: John
Lloyd Stephens
Website: on
JLS & Catherwood (illustrator) & the travel account
Website: Catherwood's
Engravings of the Ruins; Frederick
Catherwood Centenary
Website: A
photographic reenactment of the Stephens/Catherwood Expeditions
Website:
Catherwood
image of a temple, with photo of the temple today |
| Week
7: The Sailor & The Scientist |
March
4: Transportation & Codification 300 years after conquest
Reading:
William Lewis Herndon, Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon,
1851-1852 |
March
6: Transportation & Codification: Discussion
Reading:
William Lewis Herndon, Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon,
1851-1852;
MIDTERM ESSAY DISTRIBUTED |
March
8: Computer Lab: Web Design II Posting Webpages using Dreamweaver
program
* Due for Lab: Initial Bibliography for your section (primary & secondary
sources) |
Week
8: SPRING BREAK
| Week
9: Imperial Designs: The Missionary & The Filibuster |
March
18: New Gospels: Protestantism & Free Labor
Reading:
(1850) Frederick Crowe, The Gospel in Central America; A History of
the Baptist Mission in British Honduras and of the Introduction of
the Bible into the Spanish American republic of Guatemala. Part 3:
The Bible in Guatemala etc. |
March
20: Discussion: Crowe & Walker
Reading:
(1860) General William Walker, The War in Nicaragua
Reading:
"Filibustering,"
Putnam's monthly magazine of American literature, science and art.
9:52 (April 1857), pp 425-436. |
| March
22: Computer Lab: Introductory Pages * Due for Lab: Bring in Text
& suggested images for intro. pages for each section |
Website: Filibusters
in New Spanish Texas
Website: William
Walker (encyclopedia entry); William
Walker (bio w/ photo)
Website: Filibustering
with William Walker, by Fanny Juda
Website: William
Walker-a site with some of his proclamations
Poem: With
Walker in Nicaragua, E. Cardenal (20th c. Nicaraguan poet) |
| Week
10: Imperial Travel: Business |
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March
25: Business & Travel
Reading:
The Travel Diary of Joseph J. Dimock
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March
27: Discussion: Travel Diary of …Dimock Impressions of Cuba
in the 19th Century
Reading:
The Travel Diary of Joseph J. Dimock
Reading:
Gold Rush Transit (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~helman/ahdiary.htm)
or guy from Newberry
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March
29: Computer
Lab: Layers: Multi-layered images on a Webpage
* Due in class: content for 1 webpage (text, images, video) |
| Website:Alfred
Balch,"Trade
with South America,"The Century 40:2 (June 1890):316-18 |
The Private Traveler
| Week
11: The Private Traveler: The Female Eye |
April
1: A Gendered View: Women Travelers
Reading:June
E. Hahner, ed., Women through Women's Eyes: Latin American Women
in Nineteenth-Century Travel Accounts
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April
3: Discussion: Women Through Women's Eyes
Reading:June
E. Hahner, ed., Women through Women's Eye
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April
5: Computer Lab: Putting together the Webpage
* Due in Class: content for 2 pages of the website (text, images,
sound) |
| Website:Women
Who Went (A. Copeland, '02) |
| Week
12: The Private Traveler: The Journalist |
April
8: Reporting on Foreign Politics
Reading:John
Reed, Insurgent Mexico (New York, 1972)
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April
10: Discussion: Insurgent Mexico
Reading:John
Reed, Insurgent Mexico (New York, 1972)
Reading:Individual
readings, found on Making of America website |
| April
12 : Computer Lab: Putting together the webpage * Bring in additional
materials for each site. |
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Website:
John Reed, John
Reed Internet Archive
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| Week
13: The Entertainer & Pleasure Seeker: Literary Man |
| April
15: Literary Travelers: The Tourist? |
April
17: Discussion: Trollope & Muybridge
Reading:
EXCERPTS:
(1860) Trollope, Anthony. The West Indies and the Spanish Main.
Eadweard Muybridge (photos; (1916-1917) |
| April
19: Computer Lab: Putting together the webpage * Due in class:
All pages for the site should be up |
Website:Anthony
Trollope Website; a second Anthony
Trollope Website; a third Anthony
Trollope Website, with bibliogs; a
links site
Website:On-Line
Books by Anthony Trollope, including 2-vol account of North America;
an alternate
site
Website:
Traveling
Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the 20th c. --numerous brochures
from the early 20th c. of speakers, filmmakers & other entertainers
with "travel" as a theme of their presentations |
| Week
14: The Project Completed |
| April
22: Computer Lab: Putting together the Website (Fine-tuning of site
links), Peer Evaluation Discussion |
| April
24: Computer Lab: Final touches to the Website (Presentations) |
April
26: Is there such a thing as Contemporary Travelers or only Tourists?
Reading:TBA
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15: |
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April
29: Discussion
& Conclusions
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