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 > > > > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >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 ---
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