• Luce Irigaray 
  • "Another Cause–Castration" (in Warhol and Herndl, eds. Feminisms; also in folder)
  • "This Sex Which Is Not One" (in Marks and de Courtivron, eds. New French Feminisms; also in folder)

• Hélène Cixous "Sorties" (in Rivkin and Ryan, eds. Literary Theory: an Anthology; also in Marks and de Courtivron, eds. New French Feminisms)
• Rubin, Gayle "The Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex" (in Rayna Reiter, ed. Towards an Anthropology of Women; also in folder)

Recommended Readings:  

• Toril Moi Sexual / Textual Politics: Part II: French Feminist Theory (especially chapters on Cixous and Irigaray)
• Rosemary Tong Feminist Thought: an Introduction: "Postmodern Feminism"

• Hélène Cixous "The Laugh of the Medusa" (in Adams and Searle; also in Leitch)

Sem. 2: Feminist Narratology

• Susan Lanser "Toward a Feminist Narratology" (in Warhol and Herndl, eds. Feminisms; also in folder)

• Ann Rosalind Jones "Writing the Body: Towards an Understanding of l’écriture féminine" (in Warhol and Herndl, eds. Feminisms)
• Lois Tyson Critical Theory Today: "Feminist Criticism"

Week 10: Post-colonial CULTURAL Theory

Sem. 1: Post-colonial Cultural Theory I

• Homi Bhabha The Location of Culture: "The Commitment to Theory" (see also the abbreviated version entitled "Cultural Diversity and Cultural Differences" in Bill Ashcroft, et al., eds. The Post-colonial Studies Reader)

Sem. 2: Post-colonial Cultural Theory II

• Homi Bhabha The Location of Culture: 
  • "Interrogating Identity: Frantz Fanon and the Postcolonial Prerogative" (see also the slightly different version entitled "Remembering Fanon: Self, Psyche and the Colonial Condition" in Williams and Chrisman)
  • "The Other Question: Stereotype, Discrimination and the Discourse of Colonialism"

WEEK 11: POST-COLONIAL CULTURAL / CRITICAL THEORY

Sem. 1: Post-colonial Cultural Theory III

• Stuart Hall "Cultural Identity and Diaspora" (in Williams and Chrisman)

Sem. 2: the Semiotics of Representation

• Homi Bhabha "Representation and the Colonial Text: Some Forms of Mimeticism" (in Frank Gloversmith, ed. The Theory of Reading; also in folder)

WEEK 12: POST-COLONIAL CRITICAL THEORY

Sem. 1: the Semiotics of Authorship

• Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Figures in Black: Words, Signs and the ‘Racial’ Self:
  • "Frederick Douglass and the Language of the Self" (also in folder)
  • "Binary Opposites in Chapter One of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Written by Himself" (also in K. M. Newton, ed. Theory into Practice)

• Richard L. W. Clarke "The Colonial Unconscious"

Recommended Readings:  

• Bart Moore-Gilbert Postcolonial Theory: "Homi Bhabha: 'the Babelian Performance'"
• Robert Young White Mythologies: "The Ambivalence of Bhabha"