English 305: Postcolonial Perspectives
>
Course Reader
> General Introduction
Reading:
The "Third World" and the Postcolonial:
L. S. Stavrianos,
Introduction to
Global Rift: The Third World Comes of Age
Vijay Prashad, "
The Third World Idea
" (
The Nation
4 June 2007 |
html version
)
Postcolonial Literature:
Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin, Introduction (highly recommended) and Chapter 6 (recommended) to
The Empire Writes Back
, 2d ed.
Barbara Harlow, from the
Preface to
Resistance Literature
Tim Brennan, from
"Narratives of Colonial Resistance"
The quandary of studying colonialism from within the heart of the empire:
Maya Mikdashi, "
Teaching Thanksgiving
" (
Jadaliyya
26 November 2013)
Internet Resources (recommended):
Key Issues in Postcolonial Studies (Postcolonial Studies, Emory University):
Colonial Education
,
Hybridity
,
Language
,
Orientalism
,
Representation
,
Transnationalism
Paul Brians: "
'Postcolonial Literature': Problems with the Term
"
Representation:
Amy Wilentz, "
The Haiti Haters
" (
The Nation
21 January 2010): "genteel racism" in the Western media's portrayal of the 3d World
Binyavanga Wainaina, “
How to Write About Africa
” (
Granta
92): satirical advice for the sensitive Western liberal
Video
of Wainaina's piece, narrated by actor Djimoun Hounsou
"
Generation Kenya
," a related piece by Wainaina from
Vanity Fair,
July 2007
Alisa Solomon, "
Who Gets to Be Human on the Evening News?
" (
PMLA
121.5 [HSU users only]): scroll down to p. 1585
Resistance:
Frantz Fanon, "
Reciprocal Bases of the Fight for Culture and National Freedom
" (Speech to the Congress of Black African Writers, 1959)
Please refer also to
General Internet Resources in Postcolonial Studies
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