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Dr. Silvia Nagy-Zekmi

Dr. Elizabeth Kolsky

Villanova University

Fall 2009

3-5:20pm

8/26. Defining postcoloniality and postcolonial studies

9/2. Modernity / postmodernity / postcoloniality

Required reading:

Appignanesi, Introducing Postmodernism

Modernity / Postmodernity, Postmodern terms: dictionary

9/9. The politics of colonialism: discovery, dispossession, domination

Required reading:

Pagden, Lords of All the World Chapters 2 and 3 (WebCT)

Each student presents the tentative title of his/her paper to the class. Each project should be related to one of the class themes. Have two ideas at hand. Details

9/16. The language of colonization

Required reading:

Columbus, "Letter to Luis de Santangel"

Todorov, The Conquest of America (14-34; 34-51) excerpt

9/23. The economics of colonialism: industrialization and deindustrialization

Required reading:

Habib, "Colonization of the Indian Economy, 1757-1900" (WebCT)

9/30. The culture of colonialism: colonial knowledge and colonial power

Required reading:

Cohn, "The Command of Language and the Language of Command" (WebCT)

10/7. Orientalism, exoticism, alterity

Required reading:

Said, "Introduction" of Orientalism

Video: Edward Said on Orientalism (1-4 on youtube) (Falvey call no. DS12 .S24 1998 (VHS)

Annotated bibliography is due. Details

10/14. Fall break

10/21. Colonial and postcolonial identity: the race question

Required reading:

Fanon, "The Fact of Blackness"  (Study notes)

Video: Race, the floating signifier and continues here (Falvey call no. HT1521 .R2358 1996, VHS)

10/28. Theorizing anti-colonial resistance: violence and non-violence

Required reading:

Fanon, “Concerning Violence”  (WebCT)

Gandhi, Hind Swaraj, chapters IV-XX

Video: The Battle of Algiers (1-13 on youtube) (Falvey call no.: PN1997.B38 B38 2004, DVD)

11/4. Colonizing and decolonizing the mind

Required reading:

Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism (WebCT)

Ngugi, "The Language of African Literature" (WebCT)

11/11. Postcolonial violence; the case study of Rwanda

Required reading:

Mamdani, When Victims Become Killers

Video: Hotel Rwanda (1-13 on youtube) (Falvey call no.: PN1997.2 H68 2005, DVD)

11/18. Migration and Human Trafficking

Required Reading:

Global Solidarity Network Website. Instructions.

Video: Sin nombre (Without a Name)

11/25. Thanksgiving break

12/2. STUDENT PRESENTATIONS of their research projects Details

12/9. Post/colonial literature and subject

Required reading:

Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea       Video (1-9)

Harlow, "Resistance Literature"