From: "Amardeep Singh" <electrostani-AT-hotmail.com> Subject: suggestions? (texts for a grad seminar) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 10:26:36 -0500 I'm teaching a course I'm calling "Writing, the Body, and the Other" this fall, and I was wondering if people have suggestions about texts. The course will aim to introduce poststructuralist (and postcolonial) theory in the context of 20th century colonial and postcolonial writings. The literary texts should feature scenes of inscription on the body in the context of some key binaries: self/other, civilized/savage, modern/primitive, human/animal, human/machine, transparent/opaque, smooth/striated, surface/depth, territorial/deterritorialized, ordered/chaotic... Besides some of the obvious texts that address this (i.e., by Conrad, Borges, Kafka, and Coetzee), does anyone have suggestions for provocative literary texts for a course on this subject? Just hit me with whatever comes to mind... Thanks in advance, Amardeep _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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