E33D / E60C TOPICS COVERED: MODULE III: FEMINIST AND POST-COLONIAL PERSPECTIVES

FEMINIST THEORY

1. Irigaray on:
   1. phallocentrism
   2. the possibility of conceptualising outside phallocentric frameworks
2. Cixous on the sexist roots of all binary opposites

Critical Theory:

1. Cixous on 'écriture feminine'--writing the female body--without falling back into the trap of binary opposites
2. Susan Lanser on how one might profitably appropriate narratology to Feminist ends

POST-COLONIAL THEORY

1. Bhabha on: 
   1. the usefulness of Derrida's notion of 'différance' for rethinking the nature of cultural identity in general
   2. the usefulness of Lacan's notion of the 'mirror stage' to rethink the relationship between coloniser and colonised
2. Hall on the usefulness of Derrida's notion of 'différance' for rethinking the nature of Caribbean cultural identity

Critical Theory:

1. Bhabha on the need to rethink the 'mimeticism' on which most Post-colonial criticism is predicated
2. The implications of Hall's model of Caribbean cultural identity for rethinking Caribbean critical practice
3. Gates on the deconstructive potential of the autobiographical genre of the slave narrative