Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 23:17:24 -0400
From: abdejene-AT-watarts.uwaterloo.ca
Subject: Re: the novel


I believe you have covered the most important theorotical works. I might add
to your list Henry Louis Gates Jr. and  Chinua Achebe's essays (Morning Yet
on Creation Day, etc) .

Good luck,

A. Dejene



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Dear post-colonial(ist)s
>
>I write because I need practical help.
>        1. Does anybody have the address of the periodical Cultural
>Critique? Please send to my personal e-mail address.
>        2. This autumn, I am leading a weekly seminar on "Novel and Nation"
>("Roman og nasjon"), looking at formal and generic aspects of the novel in
>juxtaposition with various theories about the nation and about nationalism.
>I want the seminar to read novels from a wide spectrum of national
>contexts: metropolitan nations, colonies, post-colonial nations, settler
>nations, minorities and proto-nations.
>        I need help, however finding theoretical texts suitable for the
>course - that is beyond those I have already worked with myself (Anderson,
>Bhabha, Brennan, Sommer, Deleuze-Guattari, Bakhtin). In disciplinary terms,
>I am both interested in post-colonialist and comparativist approaches,
>indeed anything which might affirm or negate our potential progress.
>        Any tips?
>
>                Hwyl
>                                Johan S.
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>johan.schimanski-AT-inl.uio.no
>- research fellow, literary studies, Univ. of Oslo
>- working on Dr.art. "An Intercourse of Nationality and Genre in Welsh
>Literature from 1700"
>- work +47-22 85 77 78, home +47-22 09 94 01, fax +47-22 85 71 00
>- http://www.uio.no/~johansc/index.html
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