SYLLABUS (spring 2009)   Syllabus (spring 2009) pdf version 

Electronic Readings Links 

  SOME USEFUL LINKS
       The Edward Said Archive

Edward Said "On Orientalism"  Video  Part One  Part Two   Part Three  Part Four 

         Edward Said's speech in Z Magazine

Postcolonial Studies at Emory University

Nationalism project

Marxists.Org  Subject Index

LINKS TO MATERIAL ON RECOMMENDED READINGS

Pramoedya Ananta Toer Page #1

Ananta Toer Page #2

Achebe and Things Fall Apart

More interesting links to Achebe and Things... Including link to some Audio Files

Readers of Achebe, despair not!! There's Money to be made off of your paper! Link to Thingsfallapart.com !
(not  a recommended site!!)
 

INTERESTING RELATED ESSAYS

"Minority Histories and Subaltern Pasts" by Dipesh Chakrabarty  (the version published in Perspectives  [November, 1997] is no longer online.  A very similar essay is available at http://www.unisa.ac.za/default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=11829  and a revised version forms an integral part of Professor Chakrabarty's Provincializing Europe (Princeton, 2000).

Some of the responses which appeared in Perspectives, below:

Eurocentricism and its Discontents  by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

Minority Histories and Subaltern Pasts: A response by Alan Spitzer

Minority Histories and Subaltern Pasts a Rejoinder by Dipesh Chakrabarty

Review Article on Empire  (focus on Niall Ferguson's book)

Review of Lila Abu Lughod  Dramas of Nationhood  http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/anthropological_quarterly/v077/77.4armbrust.pdf

Feminism, Nationalism, Modernity: An Interview with Lila Abu-Lughod

Women, Islam after the War in Afghanistan: An Interview with Lila Abu-Lughod
 

More to come!  Page under construction.  Last updated 1. 07. 09

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