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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

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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
>
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