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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:54:33 +1100
From: Tracey Benson <tracey.benson-AT-anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: suggestions? (texts for a grad seminar)


you could try Liz Grosz's Volatile bodies, Paul Carter's Baroque Memories 
and Anne McClintock's Imperial Leather
Also, I found Lyotard's essay Scapeland interesting....

tracey
At 10:26 AM 14/03/2002 -0500, you 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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