English 240: Caribbean Literature
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The Predicament of Exile 1
Required Reading:
Michelle Cliff, "
Claiming An Identity They Taught Me to Despise
"
Michelle Cliff, "
Journey Into Speech" and "If I Could Write This in Fire, I Would Write This in Fire
"
Stuart Hall, from "
The Question of Cultural Identity
" (this document also contains excerpts from another of Hall's essays, "
New Ethnicities
"--which you are welcome
but not required
to read!)
Selected Internet Resources (FYI / Recommended)
Michelle Cliff
Biography/General:
Postcolonial Studies
(Emory University)
|
Voices from the Gaps
(U of Minnesota)
Profiles/Interviews:
"
Michelle Cliff: The Historical Re-Visionary
" (Interview with Julie Enszer, Lambda Literary)
"
A Furious Voice, Forged in the 'Fire' of Prejudice
" (Jessica Crispin, NPR)
"
Re-Visioning Our History
" (Interview with Jim Clawson, U of Pittsburgh, 2002)
"
Journey Into Speech: A Writer Between Two Worlds
" (Interview with Opal Palmer Adisa, 1994)
Other selected work:
Michelle Cliff, "
History as Fiction, Fiction as History
" (
Ploughshares
Fall 1994)
Michelle Cliff, "
The Store of a Million Items
" (
Callaloo
23:1 [Fall 2000]) (HSU users only)
Stuart Hall:
Wikipedia
|
The Guardian
(London)
Homi K. Bhabha, "
The Beginnings of Their Own Enunciations: Stuart Hall and the Work of Culture
" (
Critical Inquiry
forthcoming) (the section entitled "Enunciation and New Ethnicities" is most pertinent to our reading)
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