File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_2002/postcolonial.0203, message 148


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






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