Week 1. Introducing the Terms
T Jan 15 Introductions
F Jan 18 Ania Loomba, From Colonialism and Postcolonialism
Michael Adas, “Contested Hegemony: The Great War and the Afro-Asian Assault on the Civilizing Mission”
Week 2. Writing the Other
T Jan 22 Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (all)
F Jan 25 Chinua Achebe, “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s ‘Heart of
Darkness’” http://kirbyk.net/hod/image.of.africa.html
Binyavanga Wainaina, “How to Write About Africa” http://www.granta.com/Archive/92/How-to-Write-about-Africa/Page-1
Blog #1 due
Week 3. Coeval, Contrapuntal
T Jan 29 Johannes Fabian, From Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes its Object (1-35)
F Feb. 1 Edward Said, From Culture and Imperialism (1-80)
Blog #2 due
Week 4. The Empire in the Attic
T Feb 5 View on your own at library: Jane Eyre (1996 version)
John McLeod, “Re-reading and Re-writing English Literature” (173-195)
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (pages 1-56)
Charlotte Bronte, Selections from Jane Eyre (119-132 in Norton edition of Sargasso Sea)
F Feb 8 Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (pages 56-end)
Sandra Drake, “Race and Caribbean Culture” (193-206 in Norton edition of Sargasso Sea)
Francis Nyamnjoh, “Images of Nyongo amongst Bamenda Grassfielders in Whiteman Kontri”
Blog #3 due
Week 5. The Empire in the Grave
T Feb 12 Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (1-109)
Roberto Schwarz, A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism (7-28, 40-75)
F Feb 15 The Posthumous Memoirs (110-end)
A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism (76-146)
Blog #4 due
Week 6. Race and Decolonization
T Feb 19 Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism http://www.rlwclarke.net/theory/SourcesPrimary/CesaireDiscourseonColonialism.pdf
Aimé Césaire, “Notebook Return to the Native Land”
F Feb 22 Frantz Fanon, From Black Skin, White Masks
Blog #5 due
Week 7. Going Contrapuntal
T Feb 26* Taleb Salih, Seasons of Migration to the North (1-82)
John McLeod, “The Shape of Orientalism” (49-55)
F Mar 1* Seasons of Migration to the North (82-end)
Blog #6 due
Week 8. Modernity and the Superfluous
T Mar 5 Writing Workshop – First 4 pages of paper 1 due
F Mar 8 Zygmunt Bauman, From Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcasts (1-62)
Paper 1 Due!
Week 9. Spring Break.
Week 10. Environmental Injustice
T Mar 19* Rob Nixon, From Slow Violence: The Environmentalism of the Poor
F Mar 22 View in class: Sweet Crude
Selections for Amazon.com book review due
No blog this week
Week 11. The Resource Curse
T Mar 26* Helon Habila, Oil on Water (Part 1, 1-145)
F Mar 29* Oil on Water (Part 2, 145-end)
Mike Davis, “Planet of the Slums”
Blog #8 due (can blog on last week or this week’s material)
Week 12. Epic Survival
T April 2* Patrick Chamoiseau, Texaco (1-158)
F April 5 Texaco (161-252) Note: class will NOT meet but you are expected to do readings and blog
Blog #9 due
Week 13. The City as Ecosystem
T April 9 ** Texaco (252-312)
F April 12 Texaco (316-end)
Mike Rubenstein, “Light Reading: Public Utility, Urban Fiction, and Human Rights”
Blog #10 due
Week. 14. Author and Audience
T April 16 Amazon book reviews due.
Chimamanda Adichie, “Jumping Monkey Hill”
Eileen Julien, “The Extroverted African Novel”
F April 19 No Class. I will meet with each student individually to discuss drafts. Those who are writing long papers will bring me the first 6 pages of their drafts. Those who are writing short papers will bring me the first 3 pages. This is not optional. Drafts are worth 10 points and those under the page limit will be docked points.
Week 15. Unshining and Exotic
T April 23
View on your own at library: Slumdog Millionaire
Ana Cristina Mendes, “Showcasing India Unshining: Film Tourism in Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire”
Graham Huggan, From The Postcolonial Exotic (1-35)
F April 26 Conclusion
Final Papers due May 3rd
Reading the Global Novel: Modernity and Its Others 