Week 1 Introduction
Jacques Derrida, "Differance,” “White Mythology,” “The Ends of Man” from Margins of Philosophy
Week 2 Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus (Chaps. 7, 9, 10)
Week 3 Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition (Introduction and Conclusion)
Week 4 Robert Young from White Mythologies
Barbara Christian, “The Race for Theory”
Abdul JanMohamed and David Lloyd, “Toward a Theory of Minority Discourse”
Wahneema Lubiano, “Shucking off the PoMo Other
R. Radhakrishnan, “Ethnic Identity and Differance”
Week 5 Hortense Spillers, “The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: a Postdate”
Rey Chow from Ethics after Idealism and “The Interruption of Referentiality”
Nahum Chandler, “Originary Displacement”
Week 6 Stuart Hall, “Who Needs Identity?” “New Ethnicities”
Tom Cohen from Ideology and Inscription
Kenneth Warren, “The Ends of African American Studies”
Etienne Balibar, “Racism as Universalism”
Week 7 Sylvia Wynter, “ On Disenchanting Discourse,”
Hortense Spillers, “Mama’s Baby Papa’s Maybe,” “Interstices”
Week 8 Toni Morrison, Sula
Barbara Smith, “Toward a Black Feminist Criticism”
Deborah McDowell, “New Directions in Black Feminist Criticism,” “Boundaries” and responses.
Tom Cohen, “Politics of the Pre-figural”
Week 9 Gayatri Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason (Philosophy and Literature)
“Revolutions that as of yet Have No Model” and
“More on Power/Knowledge” from The Spivak Reader
Week 10 Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture (Chapters 1, 2, 8, 9, 11, 12)
Peter Hallward from Absolutely Postcolonial
Week 11 Edouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation
Sylvia Wynter, “The Word of Man”
Course Synthesis