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Week 1:
Tuesday 8/25:

Introduction

Thursday 8/27:

Ania Loomba, from Colonialism/Postcolonialism pp. 1-41 (Moodle)

Neil Lazarus, The Global Dispensation Since 1945 (Moodle)
Part I: Anti-colonialism and the roots of (Post-)Colonial resistance

Week 2:
Tuesday 9/1:

Aime Cesaire, Discourse on Colonialism

Thursday 9/3:

Frantz Fanon, On National Culture*

Amilcar Cabral, National Liberation and Culture*

Week 3:
Tuesday 9/8:

Aime Cesaire, Notebook of a Return to a Native Land

Part II: You taught me language, and my profit on't is, I know how to curse: Caliban and the
Construct of the Other
Thursday 9/10:

Chinua Achebe, The African Writer and the English Language*

Ngugi wa Thiong'o, The Language of African Literature*

Week 4:
Tuesday 9/15:

Ousmane Sembene, God's Bits of Wood

Thursday 9/17

God's Bits of Wood

Week 5:
Tuesday 9/22:

Rudyard Kipling, The White Man's Burden

Rudyard Kipling, The Man Who Would Be King
Johannes Fabian, from Time and the Other (Moodle)

Thursday 9/24:

George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant

Said, Orientalism, pp. 1-28, 73-110

Week 6:

Tuesday 9/29:

Binyavanga Wainaina, How to Write About Africa

VY Mudimbe, from The Invention of Africa (Moodle)

Thursday 10/1:

Spivak, Can the Subaltern Speak?*

Chakrabarty, Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History

Week 7:
Tuesday 10/6:

Shakespeare, The Tempest

Aime Cesaire, Une Tempete

Thursday 10/8:

Kamau Brathwaite, Caliban (Handout; Also, you should read along with audio
here)
Roberto Retamar, Caliban (Moodle)

Week 8:
Tuesday 10/13:

Countee Cullen, Heritage

Derek Walcott, A Far Cry from Africa
George Lamming, from Pleasures of Exile (Moodle)

Thursday 10/15:

Homi Bhabha, The Other Question

---. Remembering Fanon*

Week 9:
Tuesday 10/20:

NO CLASS

Thursday 10/22:

Midterm Exam

Week 10:
Tuesday 10/27:

George Lamming, In the Castle of My Skin

Part III: Postcolonialism in Practice

Thursday 10/29:

Gyan Prakash, Postcolonial Criticism and Indian Historiography

Stuart Hall, Cultural Identity and Diaspora*

Week 11:
Tuesday 11/3:

Arjun Appadurai, Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Economy*

Bruce Robbins, Secularism, Elitism, Progress, and Other Transgressions: On
Edward Saids Voyage In

Thursday 11/5:

Neil Larsen, DetermiNation: Postcolonialism, Poststructuralism, and the

Problem of Ideology

Benedict Anderson, from Imagined Communities (Moodle)

Week 12:
Tuesday 11/10:

Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

Thursday 11/12:

Wide Sargasso Sea

Part IV: Gender and Postcoloniality

Week 13:
Tuesday 11/17:

Spivak, Three Women's Texts

hooks, Postmodern Blackness*

Thursday 11/19:

Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship

and Colonial Discourses*
Sara Suleri, Women Skin Deep; Feminism and the Postcolonial

Week 14:
Tuesday 11/24:

NO CLASS: (read Said, Orientalism, 284-328)

Thursday 11/26:

NO CLASS

Week 15:
Tuesday 12/1:

Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions

Thursday 12/3:

Nervous Conditions
Part V: Problematics of the Postcolonial

Week 16:
Tuesday 12/8:

Anne McClinotock, The Angel of Progress: Pitfalls of the Term Post

Colonialism*
Ella Shohat, Notes on the Post-colonial

Thursday 12/10:

Ania Loomba, Overworlding the 'Third World*

Arif Dirlik, The Postcolonial Aura

Final 12-15 Page Essay Due on Monday 12/14