Faculty and graduate students are welcome to join our Critical Theory Reading Group. We meet on most Tuesdays. The meeting time for fall 2004 has yet to be determined. Many of the readings below are from Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, eds., Literary Theory: An Anthology (Blackwell Publishers, 1998). It is available for $49.95 from Barnes and Noble's website. PDF versions are available as electronic reserves to group members through this website. A few additional readings will also be made available through this website. Participants are encouraged to raise additional relevant texts during discussions. If you would like to participate, if you have questions about the group, or if you would like to make suggestions about the reading list, please e-mail Ted Mack.
| 7 December 2004 |
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, "Can the Subaltern Speak?" from Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture (University of Illinois Press, 1988), pp. 271-313.
- Ania Loomba, Colonialism/Postcolonialism (Routledge, 1998)
Special Guest: Professor Zahid Chaudhary, Department of English, University of Washington |
| 24 November 2004 |
- Michel Foucault, "The Subject and Power"
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| 18 November 2004 |
- Homi Bhabha, "Signs Taken for Wonders" from The Location of Culture (Routledge, 1994)
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| 4 November 2004 |
- Frantz Fanon, "The Pitfalls of National Consciousness" from Wretched of the Earth (Grove Weidenfeld, 1963)
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24 August 2004
(pp. 996-1022) |
- Carole Boyce Davies, "Migratory Subjectivities"
- Jamaica Kincaid, "A Small Place"
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17 August 2004
(pp. 958-995) |
- Rey Chow, "Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies"
- Paul Gilroy, "The Black Atlantic"
- Antonio Benítez-Rojo, "The Repeating Island"
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10 August 2004
(pp. 923-957) |
- Toni Morrison, "Playing in the Dark"
- Homi Bhabha, "The Location of Culture"
- Anthony Appiah, "Topologies of Nativism"
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3 August 2004
(pp. 887-922) |
- Gloria Anzaldua, "Borderlands/La Frontera"
- Henry Louis Gates, "The Blackness of Blackness"
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| 27 July 2004 |
- Harootunian, H.D. "Postcoloniality's Unconsious/Area Studies' Desire" from Learning Places: The Afterlives of Area Studies (Duke University Press, 2002), pp. 150-174.
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20 July 2004
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- Frantz Fanon, "National Culture" from The Post-Colonial Studies Reader (Routledge, 1995)
- Frantz Fanon, "The Negro and Language" from Black Skin, White Masks (Grove Press, 1967)
- Chidi Amuta, "Fanon, Cabral, and Ngugi on National Liberation" from The Post-Colonial Studies Reader (Routledge, 1995)
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13 July 2004
(pp. 856-886) |
- Patrick Brantlinger, "The Rule of Darkness"
- W.E.B. DuBois, "The Souls of Black Folks"
- Edward Said, "Orientalism"
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Post Colonialism (Introduction by Rivkin and Ryan, pp. 851-855) |
| 6 July 2004 |
- Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, chapter 1.
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29 June 2004
(pp. 637-674) |
- Adrienne Rich, "Notes Toward a Politics of Location"
- Margaret Homans, "Representation, Reproduction, and Women's Place in Language"
- Hortense Spillers, "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book"
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22 June 2004
(pp. 612-637) |
- Patricia Klindienst, "The Voice of the Shuttle is Ours"
- Audre Lorde, "Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference"
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15 June 2004
(pp. 585-612) |
- Laura Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"
- Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, from The Madwoman in the Attic
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8 June 2004
(pp. 561-585) |
- Judith Fetterly, "On the Politics of Literature"
- Luce Irigaray, "The Power of Discourse and the Subordination of the Feminine"
- Luce Irigaray, "Commodities amongst Themselves"
- Hélène Cixous, "Sorties"
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1 June 2004
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No meeting |
25 May 2004
(pp. 533-561)
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- Gayle Rubin, "The Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex"
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Feminism (Introduction by Rivkin and Ryan, pp. 527-532) |
18 May 2004
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No meeting |
11 May 2004
(pp. 16-27)
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- Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, "What is a Minor Literature?" from Kafka
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4 May 2004
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No meeting |
27 April 2004
(pp. 206-227) |
- Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, from The Anti-Oedipus
- Margaret Mahler, "The Psychological Birth of the Human Infant"
- Sidney J. Blatt and Shula Shichman, "Two Primary Configurations of Psychopathology"
- René Girard, "Triangular Desire"
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20 April 2004
(pp. 178-205) |
- Jacques Lacan, "The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience"
- Jacques Lacan, "The Symbolic Order"
- Jacques Lacan, "The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason since Freud"
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13 April 2004
(pp. 154-177) |
- Sigmund Freud, "The Uncanny"
- Sigmund Freud, "Beyond the Pleasure Principle"
- Sigmund Freud, from Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
- Michel Foucault, "Nietzche, Freud, Marx"
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6 April 2004
(pp. 128-153) |
- Sigmund Freud, from The Interpretation of Dreams
- Sigmund Freud, "On Narcissism"
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Psychoanalysis (Introduction by Rivkin and Ryan, pp. 119-127) |
| 30 March 2004 |
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