Detailed Syllabus 24/25
Syllabus 2024/25
Week One: Caste and Nation
Mahatma Gandhi, (1909)
B.R. Ambedkar, (1936) - just the main text, we will cover Arundhati Roy's intro next week.
Week Two: Caste and Indigeneity
Arundhati Roy, (intro to the Verso edition of Annihilation of Caste)
Dalit Camera,
Mahasweta Devi, 鈥淧terodactyl, Puran Sahay, and PirthaLink opens in a new window in Imaginary Maps: Three Stories by Mahasweta Devi, ed. Gayatri Spivak (London: Routledge, 1993)
Week Three: Enlightenment and its Discontents (1) - Slavery and Revolution
C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins (1938; London: Penguin, 2001) - Any edition published 1963 and after is fine.
David Scott, : prologue and Ch.1.
Week Four: Enlightenment and its Discontents (2) - Colonialism and Reaction
Aim茅 C茅saire,
Suzanne C茅saire, "1943: Surrealism and Us" and "The Great Camouflage" from The Great Camouflage: Writings of Dissent 1941-45, ed. Daniel L. Maximin (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2012)
Hannah Arendt, (1951; London: Penguin, 2017): ch.7 "Race and Bureaucracy" and ch9. "The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man".
Week Five: Decolonization and National Culture
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961; London: Penguin, 2001) - any edition is fine
Week 6: Narrating Decolonization
Ayei Kwei Amrah, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (Pearson, 1989)
Ngugi wa Thiong鈥檕,
Week 7: Blackness and the Promise of Diaspora
Richard Wright, Black Power: A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos (1954) - photocopies of selections to be provided (or you can purchase as part of the collection Three Books from Exile if you want your own copy)
Saidiya Hartman, : prologue, ch1. "Afrotopia", ch 6. "So Many Dungeons".
Week 8: Race in Theory (From Anti- to Post-Colonial?)
Frantz Fanon, "The Fact of Blackness"Link opens in a new window, from Black Skin White Masks (1952; London: Pluto, 2008).
G.W.F. Hegel, "Independence and Dependence of Self-Consciousness: Lordship and Bondage"Link opens in a new window, from The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807; Oxford: Oxford UP, 1977)
Homi K. Bhaba, "Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse", October 28 (1984): 125-33.
Kevin Ochieng Okoth,
Week 9: Creolization
Edouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation (1990; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997) - Selections to be provided: Pt1. "Approaches", Pt2. "Paths".
Enrique Dussel, "Eurocentrism and Modernity", boundary 2, vol. 20, no. 3 (1993): 65-76.Link opens in a new window
Maria Lugones, 'Toward a Decolonial Feminism', Hypatia, vol. 25, no. 4 (2010): 742-759.Link opens in a new window
Sylvia Wynter, "Novel and History, Plot and Plantation", Savacou 5
Week 10: Settler Colonialism
Eduardo Galeano,
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, "Ch鈥檌xinakax utxiwa: A Reflection on the Practices and Discourses of Decolonization", The South Atlantic Quarterly 111, no. 1: 95-109.