From: "Nathan Widder" <N.E.Widder-AT-exeter.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Secondary literature for Todorov/post-colonial studies
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 18:32:39 -0000


Thanks, this is very good, wasn't exactly what I was thinking of initially
but now that you've mentioned it, it may be exactly what I want.

Take care,

Nathan

----- Original Message -----
From: Fernando Calzadilla <fc270-AT-nyu.edu>
To: <foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: Secondary literature for Todorov/post-colonial studies


> Check Lewis Hanke on the controversy between Sepulveda and De Las Casas.
In
> the original 1500s documents they argue whether the American indigenous
> people had soul or if they could be consider humans at all.
>
>
> > From: newidder <N.E.Widder-AT-exeter.ac.uk>
> > Reply-To: foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> > Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 17:27:42 +0000
> > To: deleuze-guattari-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> > Cc: foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> > 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
> > Tel: +44 (0)1392 263 183
> > Fax: +44 (0)1392 263 305
> > http://www.ex.ac.uk/shipss/politics/staff/widder/
> >
>