Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 17:27:42 +0000
From: newidder <N.E.Widder-AT-exeter.ac.uk>
Subject: Secondary literature for Todorov/post-colonial studies


I am currently putting together the reading list for a course I am teaching 
next semester on liberlism, communitarianism and the politics of otherness.  
The course will include Tvetan Todorov's The Conquest of America.  As there is 
basically no secondary literature on this book itself (unless someone knows of 
something, in which case please let me know), I was hoping to get some 
suggestions for more general literature in post-colonial studies that could go 
along with this study of how the Spaniards encountered a strange land with 
strange pagans who did not fit into their established categories and so ended 
up exterminating them (as one does with people who don't fit into your 
established categories).

I realize Todorov's book isn't always thought of very highly in the field of 
post-colonial studies, but I, for one, like the book and would like to find 
some other literature to go with it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Nathan

Dr. Nathan Widder
Lecturer in Political Theory
University of Exeter
Exeter  EX4 4RJ
United Kingdom
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