ring an interdisciplinary approach to the study of postcolonial texts. 
Tentative Readings 
Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart 
Ahmad, Aijaz. In Theory (Selections--Essays will be photocopied if out of print) 
C?saire, Aim?. Discourse on Colonialism 
Conway, Jill Ker. The Road from Coorain Fanon, 
Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks 
Ghosh, Amitav. The Shadow Lines 
Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic 
Guha, Ranajit. The Subaltern Studies Reader (Selections) 
Lamming George. In the Castle of My Skin 
Mannoni, Octave. Prospero and Caliban (Selections) 
Memmi, Albert. The Colonizer and the Colonized (Selections) 
Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things 
Rushdie, Salman. The Moor's Last Sigh 
Said, Edward. Orientalism 
Selected websites listed on the syllabus should also be reviewed. 
Essays available from the English Department 
Achebe, Chinua. "The Writer and His Community." Hopes & Impediments. NY: Doubleday,1988. 47-61. 
Ahmad, Aijaz. "Postcolonialism: What's in a Name?" Late Imperial Culture. Ed. Rom?n de la Campa, E. Ann Kaplan, & Michael Sprinker. London:
Verso, 1995. 11-32. 
Appiah, Kwame Anthony. "Is the Post in Postmodernism the Post- in Postcolonial?" Critical Inquiry 17 (Winter 1991): 336-57. 
Balibar, Etienne. "Ambiguous Universality." Differences: a Journal of Feminist Studies 7.1 (1995): 48-74. 
Bahri, Deepika. "Coming to Terms with the 'Postcolonial.'" Between the Lines. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1996. 
Bhabha, Homi K. "Introduction: Narrating the Nation." & "DissemiNation." Nation and Narration. London: Routledge, 1990. 1-7; 291-322. 
---. "Of Mimicry and Man." The Location of Culture. London: Routledge, 1994. 85-92. 
---. "Signs Taken for Wonders: Questions of Ambivalence and Authority under a Tree Outside Delhi, May 1817." The Location of Culture. London:
Routledge, 1994. 102-22. 
---. "Unsatisfied: Notes on Vernacular Cosmopolitanism." Text and Nation: Cross-Disciplinary Essays on Cultural and National Identities. Ed. Laura
Garcia-Moreno and Peter C. Pfeiffer. Columbia, SC : Camden House, c1996. 191-207. 
Chow, Rey. "Where Have All the Natives Gone?" Writing Diaspora. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1993. 27-54. 
Dirlik, Arif. "The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism." Critical Inquiry 20 (Winter 1994): 328-56. 
Fanon, Frantz."Algeria Unveiled." A Dying Colonialism. New York: Grove, 1965. 35-67. 
Guha, Ranajit. "Preface" & "On Some Aspects of the Historiography of Colonial India." Selected Subaltern Studies. Ed. Ranjit Guha & G. C.
Spivak. New York: OUP, 1988 
Hooks, Bell. "Third World Diva Girls: Politics of Feminist Solidarity." The Woman-Centered Economy: Ideals, Reality, and the Space in Between. Ed.
Loraine Edwalds & Midge Stocker. Chicago: Third Side Press, 1995. 265-280. 
Jameson, Frederic. "Third World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism." Social Text 15 (1986): 65-88. & Response to Ahmad. 
Kaplan, Caren."A World without Boundaries: The Body Shop's Trans/National Geographics." Social Text 43 (Fall 1995): 45-66. 
Mani, Lata. "Multiple Mediations." Feminist Review 35 (Summer 1990): 24-41. 
Miyoshi, Masao. "A Borderless World?: From Colonialism to Transnationalism and the Decline of the Nation-State." Critical Inquiry 19.4 (Summer
1993): 726-51. 
McClintock, Ann. "The Angel of Progress: Pitfalls of the Term 'Post-Colonialism.'" Social Text 31/32 (1992): 84-98. 
Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. "Under Western Eyes," Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism. Ed. Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Ann Russo
and Lourdes Torres. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1991. 333-58. 
Ngugi, Wa Thiong'O. "Literature and Society." Writers in Politics. London: Heinemann, 1981. Perusek, Darshan. "Subaltern Consciousness and the
Historiography of the Indian Rebellion of 1857." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 25.3 (Spring 1992): 286-301. 
Sangari, Kumkum. "The Politics of the Possible." The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse. Ed. Abdul R. JanMohamed and David Lloyd. New
York: OUP, 1990. 216-45. 
Shohat, Ella. "Notes on the Post-Colonial," Social Text 31/32 (1992): 99-113. 
---. "The Struggle over Representation: Casting, Coalitions, and the Politics of Identification." Late Imperial Culture. Ed. Rom?n de la Campa, E.
Ann Kaplan, and Michael Sprinkler. London: Verso, 1995. 166-78. 
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. "Can the Subaltern Speak?" Marxism and the interpretation of Culture. Ed. Cary Nelson and Larry Grossberg.
Chicago: Uni of Illinois P, 1988): 271-313. 
---. "Love, Cruelty, and Cultural Talks in the Hot Peace." Parallax 1 (Sept. 1995): 1-31. ---. "Feminism and Critical Theory." In Other Worlds:
Essays in Cultural Politics. New York : Methuen, 1987. 77-92. 
---. "Transnationality and Multiculturalist Ideology." Between the Lines: South Asians and Postcoloniality. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1996. 64-89. 
Suleri, Sara. "Woman Skin Deep: Feminism and the Postcolonial Condition." Critical Inquiry 18 (1992): 756-769. 
Trinh, Minh-Ha, T. "Difference: 'A Special Third World Women's Issue." Discourse 8 (Fall/Winter 1986-87): 11-36. 
Viswanathan, Gauri. "Currying Favor: The Politics of British Educational and Cultural Policy in India, 1813-1854." Colonialism & Other Essays.
Oxford: OUP, 1990. 85-104. 
Young, Robert. "Hybridity and Diaspora." Colonial Desire : Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race. London: Routledge, 1995. 1-28; 183-7 (endnotes).
Tentative Syllabus 
Week 1 9/3 Introduction etc. Postcolonialism and its Discontents Ahmad, "Postcolonialism: What's in a Name?" Bahri, "Coming to Terms with the
Postcolonial" Dirlik, "The Postcolonial Aura" McClintock, "The Angel of Progress" Shohat, "Notes on the Postcolonial."
http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Intro.html 
Week 2 9/10 Things Fall Apart The Writer and his Community from Hopes and Impediments along w/ Things Fall Apart also issue of lang
discussed here along w/ role of hero, indiv. and community 
Week 3 9/17 Orientalism and Representation C?saire, Discourse on Colonialism Chow, "Where Have All the Natives Gone?" Said, Orientalism
("Introduction"; "Latent and Manifest Orientalism") http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Orientalism.html Shohat, "The Struggle over
Representation" http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Essentialism.html http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Representation.html 
Week 4 9/24 Tools of Empire Web project proposals due Macaulay's Minute on Indian Education (Available at
 http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/users/raley/english/macaulay.html) Ngugi, "Literature and Society" http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Ngugi.html
Viswanathan, "Currying Favor" The Road from Coorain http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Conway.html
http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Education.html http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Language.html 
Week 5 10/1 Narrating Nation Ahmad, In Theory Bhabha, "Signs taken for Wonders"; "Introduction"; "Dissemination"
http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/1WEBPAGE.HTML Jameson, Third World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism" Pandey, "In
Defense of the Fragment" (The Subaltern Studies Reader) Young, Robert. "Hybridity and Diaspora"
http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Nationalism~Web.html Gyan Prakash speaks at 4 pm today. We may have to reschedule class or start
class at 5 and end at 8pm. 
Week 6 10/8 The Shadow Lines http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Ghosh.html 
Week 7 10/15 The God of Small Things