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 > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > 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 --- --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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