File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_2002/postcolonial.0203, message 165


Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 09:18:45 -0500
From: Lou Caton <lcaton-AT-wisdom.wsc.ma.edu>
Subject: Kureishi and cosmopolitanism (?)


say, that title for Kureishi - The Buddha of Suburbia  - sounds intriguingly
cross-borderish.  Is Kureishi trying to bring the spiritual into the
suburbs?  Might this novel (?) have cosmopolitan elements?  What's your
assessment, Anjali?

lou <lcaton-AT-wisdom.wsc.ma.edu>

"Nerlekar, Anjali" wrote:

> 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
> >
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