WEEK SEVEN: POSTMODERNISM AND POSTCOLONIALISM
Monday, February 17
- Jurgen Habermas, "Modernity--An Incomplete Project," in The Anti-
Aesthetic, ed. Hal Foster (Port Townsend, WA: Bay Press, 1983): 3-15.
(on reserve)
- Jean-Francois Lyotard, introduction and sections 1, 2, 3, 9, and 10,
The Postmodern Condition: xxiii-xxv, 3-11 and 31-41. (on reserve)
- For a handout on these readings, click here.
- For students' responses, click here.
Wednesday, February 19
- Frederic Jameson, "The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism,"
Postmodernism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991): 1-54.
(on reserve)
- For a handout on these readings, click here.
- For students' responses, click here.
Friday, February 21
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, "Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing
Historiography," from Selected Subaltern Studies, ed. Ranajit Guha and
Gayatri Charkravorty Spivak (Oxford: OUP, 1988) (on reserve as photocopy)
- James Clifford, "On Collecting Art and Culture," an excerpt from The
Predicament of Culture, taken from The Cultural Studies Reader,
ed. Simon During (London: Routledge, 1993) (on reserve as photocopy)
- Kwame Anthony Appiah, "Is the Post- in Postmodernism the Post- in
Postcolonial?" Critical Inquiry 17.2 (1991): 336-57 (on reserve as
photocopy)
- For a handout on these readings, click here.
WHAT NEXT?
revised October 1, 1997
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