WEEK TWELVE: POSTCOLONIAL THEORY
(Week of November 23)
 

REQUIRED READINGS:

• Homi Bhabha "The Other Question: Stereotype, Discrimination and the Discourse of Colonialism" [1983] (pp. 66-84 in his The Location of Culture; see also abbreviated version, pp. 293-301 in Twentieth-Century Literary Theory: a Reader, ed. K. M. Newton)

• 08A Bhabha "The Other Question"

• Homi Bhabha
  • "The Commitment to Theory" [1988] (pp. 2379-2398 in Leitch; pp. 19-39 in his The Location of Culture; see also abbreviated version entitled "Cultural Diversity and Cultural Differences," pp. 206-209 in The Post-colonial Studies Reader, ed. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin)
  • "Representation and the Colonial Text: Some Forms of Mimeticism" [1984] (pp. 93-122 in Frank Gloversmith, ed. The Theory of Reading)

• 08B Bhabha "The Commitment to Theory"
• 12A Bhabha "Representation and the Colonial Text: Some Forms of Mimeticism"

• Stuart Hall "Cultural Identity and Diaspora" [1993] (pp. 392-401 in Colonial Discourse and Post-colonial Theory: a Reader, ed. Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman)

• 12B Hall "Cultural Identity and Diaspora"

RECOMMENDED READINGS:

• Moore-Gilbert, Bart.  "Homi Bhabha: 'the Babelian Performance.'"  Postcolonial Theory: Contexts, Practices, Politics.  London: Verso, 1997.  114-151.
• Clarke, Richard L. W. "From Dialectic to Différance: Rethinking Creolisation in the Later Work of Stuart Hall."  Shibboleths: Journal of Comparative Theory 1.1 (2006): 37-53.

PHILWEB RESOURCES:

• Postcolonial Theory:
  • South Asian Theory (Indian):
    • Bhabha
  • Caribbean Theory:
    • Hall

• Please note that there is an extra make-up class on the morning of Wednesday November 25.
• Please note that I have numbered the handouts according to the original location of the readings in Weeks 8 and 12, respectively.

* JSTOR: available on campus only.