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Model Thesis mini-lecture

1. Situating postcolonial theory today

Reading guidence: situating postcolonial theory today

Stuart Hall. "When was ‘The Post-Colonial’? Thinking at the Limit” in The Postcolonial Question: Common Skies, Divided Horizons. Eds. Iain Chambers and Lidia Curti, 1996: 242-60; core excerpts: 242-248 and 256-259.

Ann Laura Stoler. Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times. Duke University Press, 2016, chapter 1, “Critical Incisions: On Concept Work and Colonial Recursions,” core excerpts: 3-10, 17-20, 24-36.

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2 Reconsidering Orientalism

Reading guidence: reconsidering Orientalism

Edward Said . “On Orientalism.” Colonial Discourse and Post-colonial Theory: A Reader. Eds. Williams, Patrick, and Laura Chrisman. Routledge, 2013, core excerpts: 132 - 140

Syed Hussein Alatas. The Myth of the Lazy Native. Routledge, 2010, “Introduction,” 1-25.

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3. Subaltern studies and the question of history

Reading guidence: subaltern studies and the question of history

Gyan Prakash. "Writing post-orientalist histories of the Third World: perspectives from Indian historiography." Comparative studies in society and history 32.2 (1990), core excerpts: 383-391, 404-408.

Excerpt: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. "Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography" In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics. Routledge, 1985, “The problem of Subaltern Consciousness,” 278-284.

Excerpt: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. “Can the Subaltern Speak.” Colonial Discourse and Post-colonial Theory: A Reader. Eds. Williams, Patrick, and Laura Chrisman. Routledge, 2013, 78-81.

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4 Postcolonialism and questions of Marxism

Postcolonialism and questions of Marxism reading guidance

Vivek Chibber. "Capitalism, class and universalism: Escaping the cul-de-sac of postcolonial theory." Socialist Register 50 (2014): 63-79.

Dipesh Chakrabarty. "Class Consciousness and the Indian Working Class: Dilemmas of Marxist Historiography." Journal of Asian and African Studies 23.1-2 (1988): 21-31.

Excerpt: Dipesh Chakrabarty. Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference. Princeton University Press, 2008, chapter 3, “Translating life-worlds," 90-96.”

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Wallace, J., 'Workers of the World, Faint!' New York Times, 17 January 2014

5. Self-determination: nation and culture

5. Self-determination: nation and culture reading guidance

Frantz Fanon. “On national culture.” Colonial Discourse and Post-colonial Theory: A Reader. Eds. Williams, Patrick, and Laura Chrisman. Routledge, 2013; core extracts: 40-42, 45-52.

Excerpt: Homi Bhabha K. The Location of Culture. Routledge, 2012, chapter 8, “DissemiNation: time, narrative, and the margins of the modern nation,” 199-209, 217-219

“Soul Music Take Me Home, Country Roads.” BBC Radio 4, 4 Aug. 2021. Please listen to the introduction (0-1’42”) and the sections by Lloyd Bradley and Ngozi Fulani (18’43” -27’45”).

Self-determination: nation and culture draft lecture text

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6. Self-determination: race, indigeneity, resistance, and freedom

Race, indigeneity, resistance, and freedom reading guidance

Saidiya Hartman. "The Burdened Individuality of Freedom." Afro-Pessimism Reader (2017): 31-48; core extracts: 35-43.

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. "Indigenous Resurgence and Co-Resistance." Critical Ethnic Studies 2.2 (2016): 19-34; core extracts: 22-31.

Race, indigeneity, resistance, and freedom draft lecture

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7. Feminism and postcolonial theory

Reading guidance: feminism and postcolonial theory

Audre Lorde. “The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.” Eds. Lewis, Reina, and Sara Mills. Feminist Postcolonial Theory: A Reader. Routledge, 2003, 25-29.

Audre Lorde short essay (1983), "There is No Hierarchy of Oppressions" (3 minutes)

Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. "“Under western eyes” revisited: Feminist solidarity through anticapitalist struggles." Signs: Journal of Women in culture and Society 28.2 (2003): 499-535; core extracts: 508-517, 521-524.

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Feminism and postcolonial theory draft lecture text

8. Queer theory and postcolonial politics

Reading guidance: queer theory and postcolonial politics

Rahul Rao. Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality. Oxford University Press, 2020, chapter 2, “The Location of Homophobia.” Please see the reading guidance for core excerpts

Rosa dos Ventos Lopes Heimer. "Homonationalist/Orientalist negotiations: The UK approach to queer asylum claims." Sexuality &amp; Culture 24.1 (2020): 174-196.

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Queer theory and postcolonial politics draft lecture text

Queer theory and postcolonial politics powerpoints

9. Settler colonialism and colonialism’s settlements

Reading guidance: settler colonialism and colonialism’s settlements

Simpson, Audra. "The ruse of consent and the anatomy of ‘refusal’: Cases from indigenous North America and Australia." Postcolonial Studies 20.1 (2017): 18-33.

Excerpt : Ann Laura Stoler. "Rethinking colonial categories: European communities and the boundaries of rule." Comparative studies in society and history 31.1 (1989): 134 - 139 .

Settler colonialism and colonialism’s settlements draft lecture text

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10. The decolonization of knowledge

Aníbal Quijano. "Coloniality and Modernity/Rationality." Cultural studies 21.2-3 (2007): pp.168-178.

Rosa dos Ventos Lopes Heimer. "Homonationalist/Orientalist negotiations: The UK approach to queer asylum claims." Sexuality & Culture 24.1 (2020): 174-196.