Module 1: Decolonizing "Global" Literature
Week 1
August 27th:
Watch Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "The Danger of a Single Story"
August 29th:
Edward Said's "Orientalism" from The Postcolonial Studies Reader (pages 87-91)
Gareth Griffin's "The Myth of Authenticity" from The Postcolonial Studies Reader (pages 237- 241)
Mimi Mondal's "So It Was Foretold"
Mimi Mondal's "On Translating the Stories Yet Unwritten: A Dalit Prespective from India"
August 31st:
Excerpt from Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place
Week 2
Sep 3th: Labor Day; no class.
Sep 5th:
Ngugi wa Thiong'o's "The Language of African Literature" from Decolonizing the Mind (pages 4- 31)
Sep 7th:
Andrea Smith's "Foreward"; Harsha Walia's "Introduction" and "Journeys Toward Decolonization" from Undoing Border Imperialism (pages 2- 13; 247-276)
Module 2: Black Feminism; Postcolonial Feminism
Week 3
Sep 10th:
Hazel Carby's "White Women Listen! Black Feminism and the Boundaries of Sisterhood"
Watch Kimberle Crenshaw's "The Urgency of Intersectionality"
Sep 12th:
Maria Lugones' "The Coloniality of Gender"
Deepa Kumar's "Imperialist Feminism and Liberalism"
Patricia Valoy's "Transnational Feminism"
Sep 14th:
Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions (chapters 1, 2)
Week 4
Sep 17th:
Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions (chapters 3, 4)
Sep 19th:
Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions (chapters 5, 6)
Sep 21st:
Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions (chapters 7, 8)
Week 5
Sep 24th:
Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions (chapters 9, 10)
Module 3: Queer Intimacies; Queer Imperialism
Sep 26th:
Stephanie M. Selvick's "Beyond the Binary: Same-Sex Desire and Gender Defiance in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions" (download from UMD e-library)
Sep 28th:
Shani Mootoo's "Out on Main Street" and "Lemon Scent"
Week 6:
Oct 1st:
Dean Spade and Craig Wilse's "Sex, Gender, and War in an Age of Multicultural Imperialism"
Oct 3th:
Sokari Ekine's "Contesting Narratives of Queer Africa"
Dagmawi Woubshet "New World Alphabet" (download from UMD e-library)
Oct 5th:
Keguro Macharia's "On Being Area-Studied: A Litany of Complaint" (download from UMD e-library) and "radical queer africa"
Week 7
Oct 8th:
Chinelo Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees (chapter 1- 11)
Oct 10th:
Chinelo Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees (chapter 12- 22)
Oct 12th:
Chinelo Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees (chapter 23- 39)
Week 8
Oct 15th:
Chinelo Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees (chapters 40- 55)
Oct 17th:
Chinelo Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees (chapters 56- 68)
Oct 19th:
Chinelo Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees (chapters 69- end)
Module 4: Gendered Surveillance; Gendered Death
Week 9
Oct 22nd:
Trans 101 (Sylvia Rivera Law Project)
Kai M. Green's "Navigating Masculinity as a Black Trans Man"
Yasmin Nair and Eli Massey's "Inclusion in the Atrocious"
Oct 24th:
Toby Beauchamp's "Artful Concealment and Strategic Visibility: Transgender Bodies and U.S. State Surveillance after 9/11"
Oct 26th:
Christopher Soto's "Transgender Security Airport"
Trish Salah's poetry: "notes toward dropping out," "Aloysius Stenographer," and "Land Day"
Fabian Romero's "Murmerations"
Keguro Macharia's "echoes of loss"
Week 10
Oct 29th:
C. Riley Snorton and Jin Haritaworn's "Trans Necropolitics: A Transnational Reflection on Violence, Death and Trans of Color Afterlife"
Oct 31st:
Peer Review Workshop for Theoretical Engagement Paper
Nov 2nd:
Jackie Kay's Trumpet (part 1)
Week 11
Nov 5th:
Jackie Kay's Trumpet (part 2)
Nov 7th:
Jackie Kay's Trumpet (part 3)
Nov 9th:
Jackie Kay's Trumpet (part 4)
Week 12
Nov 12th:
Jackie Kay's Trumpet (part 5)
Module 5: Speculating New Worlds
Nov 14th:
Angela Davis' chapter 1 (Introduction) and chapter 6 ("Abolitionist Alternatives") from Are Prisons Obsolete? (pages 9-21; 105-115)
Angela Davis' "Ferguson Reminds us of the Importance of a Global Context"
Walida Imarisha's "Imagine a World Without Prisons"
Nov 16th:
Sofia Samatar's "Writing Queerly" and "The Spaces Between Objects: On Weird Fiction and the Interstitial"
Mumia Abu-Jamal's "Star Wars and the American Imagination"
Watch Nnedi Okorafor's "Sci-Fi Stories that Imagine a Future Africa"
Week 13
Nov 19th:
Kai Cheng Thom's Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars (part 1)
Nov 21st: Thanksgiving Break; no class
Nov 23th: Thanksgiving Break; no class
Week 14
Nov 26th:
Kai Cheng Thom's Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars (part 2)
Nov 28th:
Kai Cheng Thom's Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars (part 3)
Nov 30th:
Kai Cheng Thom's Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars (part 4)
Week 15
Dec 3rd:
Writing day: work on your final paper drafts (no class)
Dec 5th:
Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild"
Dec 7th:
Sofia Samatar's "An Account of the Land of Witches"
Dec 10th:
Nnedi Okorafor's "Spider the Artist"
Week 1
August 27th:
Watch Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "The Danger of a Single Story"
August 29th:
Edward Said's "Orientalism" from The Postcolonial Studies Reader (pages 87-91)
Gareth Griffin's "The Myth of Authenticity" from The Postcolonial Studies Reader (pages 237- 241)
Mimi Mondal's "So It Was Foretold"
Mimi Mondal's "On Translating the Stories Yet Unwritten: A Dalit Prespective from India"
August 31st:
Excerpt from Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place
Week 2
Sep 3th: Labor Day; no class.
Sep 5th:
Ngugi wa Thiong'o's "The Language of African Literature" from Decolonizing the Mind (pages 4- 31)
Sep 7th:
Andrea Smith's "Foreward"; Harsha Walia's "Introduction" and "Journeys Toward Decolonization" from Undoing Border Imperialism (pages 2- 13; 247-276)
Module 2: Black Feminism; Postcolonial Feminism
Week 3
Sep 10th:
Hazel Carby's "White Women Listen! Black Feminism and the Boundaries of Sisterhood"
Watch Kimberle Crenshaw's "The Urgency of Intersectionality"
Sep 12th:
Maria Lugones' "The Coloniality of Gender"
Deepa Kumar's "Imperialist Feminism and Liberalism"
Patricia Valoy's "Transnational Feminism"
Sep 14th:
Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions (chapters 1, 2)
Week 4
Sep 17th:
Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions (chapters 3, 4)
Sep 19th:
Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions (chapters 5, 6)
Sep 21st:
Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions (chapters 7, 8)
Week 5
Sep 24th:
Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions (chapters 9, 10)
Module 3: Queer Intimacies; Queer Imperialism
Sep 26th:
Stephanie M. Selvick's "Beyond the Binary: Same-Sex Desire and Gender Defiance in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions" (download from UMD e-library)
Sep 28th:
Shani Mootoo's "Out on Main Street" and "Lemon Scent"
Week 6:
Oct 1st:
Dean Spade and Craig Wilse's "Sex, Gender, and War in an Age of Multicultural Imperialism"
Oct 3th:
Sokari Ekine's "Contesting Narratives of Queer Africa"
Dagmawi Woubshet "New World Alphabet" (download from UMD e-library)
Oct 5th:
Keguro Macharia's "On Being Area-Studied: A Litany of Complaint" (download from UMD e-library) and "radical queer africa"
Week 7
Oct 8th:
Chinelo Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees (chapter 1- 11)
Oct 10th:
Chinelo Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees (chapter 12- 22)
Oct 12th:
Chinelo Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees (chapter 23- 39)
Week 8
Oct 15th:
Chinelo Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees (chapters 40- 55)
Oct 17th:
Chinelo Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees (chapters 56- 68)
Oct 19th:
Chinelo Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees (chapters 69- end)
Module 4: Gendered Surveillance; Gendered Death
Week 9
Oct 22nd:
Trans 101 (Sylvia Rivera Law Project)
Kai M. Green's "Navigating Masculinity as a Black Trans Man"
Yasmin Nair and Eli Massey's "Inclusion in the Atrocious"
Oct 24th:
Toby Beauchamp's "Artful Concealment and Strategic Visibility: Transgender Bodies and U.S. State Surveillance after 9/11"
Oct 26th:
Christopher Soto's "Transgender Security Airport"
Trish Salah's poetry: "notes toward dropping out," "Aloysius Stenographer," and "Land Day"
Fabian Romero's "Murmerations"
Keguro Macharia's "echoes of loss"
Week 10
Oct 29th:
C. Riley Snorton and Jin Haritaworn's "Trans Necropolitics: A Transnational Reflection on Violence, Death and Trans of Color Afterlife"
Oct 31st:
Peer Review Workshop for Theoretical Engagement Paper
Nov 2nd:
Jackie Kay's Trumpet (part 1)
Week 11
Nov 5th:
Jackie Kay's Trumpet (part 2)
Nov 7th:
Jackie Kay's Trumpet (part 3)
Nov 9th:
Jackie Kay's Trumpet (part 4)
Week 12
Nov 12th:
Jackie Kay's Trumpet (part 5)
Module 5: Speculating New Worlds
Nov 14th:
Angela Davis' chapter 1 (Introduction) and chapter 6 ("Abolitionist Alternatives") from Are Prisons Obsolete? (pages 9-21; 105-115)
Angela Davis' "Ferguson Reminds us of the Importance of a Global Context"
Walida Imarisha's "Imagine a World Without Prisons"
Nov 16th:
Sofia Samatar's "Writing Queerly" and "The Spaces Between Objects: On Weird Fiction and the Interstitial"
Mumia Abu-Jamal's "Star Wars and the American Imagination"
Watch Nnedi Okorafor's "Sci-Fi Stories that Imagine a Future Africa"
Week 13
Nov 19th:
Kai Cheng Thom's Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars (part 1)
Nov 21st: Thanksgiving Break; no class
Nov 23th: Thanksgiving Break; no class
Week 14
Nov 26th:
Kai Cheng Thom's Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars (part 2)
Nov 28th:
Kai Cheng Thom's Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars (part 3)
Nov 30th:
Kai Cheng Thom's Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars (part 4)
Week 15
Dec 3rd:
Writing day: work on your final paper drafts (no class)
Dec 5th:
Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild"
Dec 7th:
Sofia Samatar's "An Account of the Land of Witches"
Dec 10th:
Nnedi Okorafor's "Spider the Artist"