Each student must bring to every class session a one-page reading response paper that expresses about what he/she sees as the major point in the reading and a question that he/she wishes to discuss in class. The weekly response papers must also be submitted online using SafeAssign on WebCT prior to the start of class.

Here is a list of papers with the corresponding due date before class.

9/2. Modernity / postmodernity / postcoloniality

Required paper: Appignanesi, Introducing Postmodernism

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

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

9/16. The language of colonization

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

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

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

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

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

10/7. Orientalism, exoticism, alterity

Required paper: Said, "Introduction" of Orientalism  

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

Required paper: Fanon, "The Fact of Blackness"  (PSR, 323)

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

Required paper: Fanon, “Concerning Violence” (Study notes) (WebCT) or

Gandhi, Hind Swaraj, chapters IV-XX

11/4. Colonizing and decolonizing the mind

Required paper: Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism (WebCT) or

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

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

Required paper: Mamdani, When Victims Become Killers

11/18. Migration and Human Trafficking

Required POSTINGS: Global Solidarity Network Website. Instructions.

12/9. Post/colonial literature and subject

Required paper:

Harlow, "Resistance Literature"