From: "Nerlekar, Anjali" <anjalin-AT-ku.edu> Subject: RE: suggestions? (texts for a grad seminar) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:38:59 -0600 Hi Amardeep! I am reading Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia and wondered if that was a text you want to look at? The colonial body makes a very strong presence here. It's almost in your face. Anjali -----Original Message----- From: Jennifer Marshall [mailto:jdm4-AT-lehigh.edu] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 10:39 AM To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Subject: Re: suggestions? (texts for a grad seminar) Hi Deep, I haven't read this, but just came across a reference to it this morning in some other reading: Rhetorical Bodies, by Jack Selzer and Sharon Crowley. It came out of a conference on comp/rhet and sounds like it might have some interesting links to poststructuralist ideas. Jen Amardeep Singh wrote: > 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 --- --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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