Electronic Readings for HIS 600

 

Week Five                  Class and history

Required Reading

1.     Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/

2.     T. J. Jackson Lears, “The Concept of Cultural Hegemony: Problems and Possibilities.”  The American Historical Review, Vol. 90, No. 3 (Jun., 1985), pp. 567-593.

3.     E. P. Thompson, “Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism.” Past & Present, No. 38 (Dec., 1967), pp. 56-97.

 

RECOMMENDED

1.     I found the following essay to be very useful guide while reading the 18th Brumaire  http://isreview.org/issue/74/eighteenth-brumaire-louis-bonaparte If that is too much, you may consider using the Wikipedia page for details about the French Revolution, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution

2.     What is Marxism:  The Marxist Theory of History  http://www.marxism.org.uk/pack/history.html

3.     For both a very succinct summary of the concepts, but also how it was deployed to further a party agenda in a specific context, see Joseph Stalin,  Dialectical and Historical Materialism https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1938/09.htm

4.     I found the following sites to be very useful for relating Marx and Gramsci and outlining some of the major Gramscian interventions http://www.theory.org.uk/ctr-gram.htm (particularly 1-4), AND  http://postcolonialstudies.emory.edu/hegemony-in-gramsci/

 

Week Eight                 Feminist Historiography 

Required Reading

  1. Introduction to AHR Forum  Revisiting “Gender:A Useful Category of Historical Analysis, The American Historical Review, Vol. 113, No. 5 (Dec., 2008), pp. 1344-1345.
  2. Joan W. Scott, “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis.” The American Historical Review, Vol. 91, No. 5 (Dec., 1986), 1053-1075. 
  3. Chandra Talpade Mohanty, “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses” Feminist Review, No. 30 (Autumn, 1988), 61-88.
  4. Saba  Mahmood, “Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival.” Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 16, No.2 (May 2001), 202-236.
  5. Mrinalini Sinha “A Global Perspective on Gender: What's South Asia Got to Do with It?”  in South Asian Feminisms. Ania Loomba and Ritty Lukose eds. (Durham:  Duke University Press, 2012), 356-74.

 

Week Ten                   Radical History to Subaltern Pasts

Required Reading

  1. Ranajit Guha, “Preface” and “On Some Aspects of the Historiography of Colonial India.” Selected Subaltern Studies. Ranajit Guha and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ed.s.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1988), 35-44.
  2. Gyanendra Pandey, “Peasant Revolt and Indian Nationalism.” Selected Subaltern Studies. Ranajit Guha and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ed.s.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1988), 233-287.
  3.  Dipesh Chakrabarty, “Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History: Who Speaks for "Indian" Pasts?” Representations, No. 37, Special Issue: Imperial Fantasies and Postcolonial Histories (Winter, 1992), 1-26.
  4.  Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak,” in Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture. Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg eds. (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988), 271-313. http://www.mcgill.ca/files/crclaw-discourse/Can_the_subaltern_speak.pdf

 

Week Eleven  Worlding History 

RECOMMENDED

Do look at the map at  http://www.transpacificproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/SouthUpMapr.jpg

 

  1. Heather Streets-Salter, “Becoming a World Historian:  The State of Graduate Training in World History and Placement in the Academic World”  45-62
  2. Leslie Witz, “Meetings of World History and Public History”

(Access both above via class BBLEARN Page)

 

Week Twelve   Archives and Narratives

 Required Reading

1.     Carolyn Steedman, “After the Archive.” Comparative Critical Studies 8.2–3 (2011): pp. 321–340.

2.     Ann Laura Stoler, “Colonial Archives and the Arts of Governance.” Archival Science, 2 (2002): pp. 87–109.

3.     Anjali Arondekar, “Without a Trace: Sexuality and the Colonial Archive.” Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 14, No. 1/2, Special Issue: Studying the History of Sexuality: Theory, Methods, Praxis (Jan. - Apr., 2005), pp. 10-27.

4.     Saidiya Hartman, “Venus in Two Acts” Small Axe, Number 26, Volume 12, Number 2, (June 2008): pp. 1-14.

5.     Jean Allman. “The Disappearing of Hannah Kudjoe: Nationalism, Feminism, and the Tyrannies of History.” Journal of Women’s History, Vol. 21 No. 3, (2009): pp. 13–35.