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This section contains a list of the texts read in this class. For a more detailed breakdown of which texts are read for which sessions, please consult the calendar in the syllabus.



Required Texts


Amazon logo Columbus, Christopher, and Bartolomé de las Casas. The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America 1492-1493. Translated by O. C. Dunn and James E. Kelley. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989, pp. 57-113. ISBN: 9780806121017.

Amazon logo Kincaid, Jamaica. "In History." In My Garden (Book). New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001, pp. 153-166. ISBN: 9780374527761.

Amazon logo ———. A Small Place. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000 [1988]. ISBN: 9780374527075.

Amazon logo Retamar, Roberto Fernández. "Caliban: Notes toward a discussion on culture in our America." In Caliban and Other Essays. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 3-45. ISBN: 9780816617432.

Amazon logo Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. New York, NY: Anchor books, 1994 [1959]. ISBN: 9780385474542.

Amazon logo Thiong'o, Ngugi wa. "The Language of African Literature." In Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1986, pp. 4-33. ISBN: 9780435080167.

Amazon logo Cliff, Michelle. Abeng. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780895941398.

Amazon logo Philip, Marlene NourbeSe. "Discourse on the Logic of Language," "Universal Grammar," "The Question of Language is the Answer to Power," "Testimony Stoops to Mother Tongue," and "She Tries Her Tongue; Her Silence Softly Breaks." In She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks. London, UK: Women's Press, pp. 42-85. ISBN: 9780921556039.

Amazon logo Kureishi, Hanif. The Buddha of Suburbia. New York, NY: Penguin, 1990. ISBN: 9780140131680.

Amazon logo Powell, Patricia. The Pagoda. New York, NY: Harvest Books, 1999 [1998]. ISBN: 9780156008297.

Amazon logo Salih, Tayeb. Season of Migration to the North. New York, NY: Penguin, 2003 [1966]. ISBN: 9780141187204.

Amazon logo el Sa'adawi, Nawal. Woman at Point Zero. London, UK: Zed Books, 1983 [1975]. ISBN: 9780862321109.

Amazon logo Dabydeen, David. Counting House. New York, NY: Peepal Tree Press Ltd., 2005 [1996]. ISBN: 9781845230159.

Amazon logo Césaire, Aimé. Notebook of a Return to the Native Land. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780819564528.

Amazon logo Coetzee, J. M. Disgrace. London, UK: Secker and Warburg, 1999. ISBN: 9780436204890.



Film


Gowariker, Ashutosh. Lagaan. India, 2001.


 








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