Schedule: Independent Study (Lit 699): Postcolonial Women Novelists

Meeting One:

Danticat, The Farming of Bones

Rey Chow, Writing Diaspora (Chapter 2)

Meeting Two:

Danticat, The Farming of Bones

Rey Chow, Primitive Passions (Part I)

Meeting Three:

Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions

Jenny Sharpe, Allegories of Empire (Chapter 1)

Meeting Four:

Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions

Trinh T. Minh-ha, Woman, Native, Other (Chapter 1)

Meeting Five:

Hulme, The Bone People

Trinh T. Minh-ha, Woman, Native, Other (Chapter 2)

Meeting Six:

Hulme, The Bone People

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak?”

(or “French Feminism Revisited,” Feminists Theorize the Political, if you already have read that one)

Meeting Seven:

Markandaya, Nectar in a Sieve

Sara Suleri, The Rhetoric of English India (Chapter 1)

Meeting Eight:

Markandaya, Nectar in a Sieve

Chandra Mohanty, Feminism Without Borders (Chapter 1)

Meeting Nine:

Yun, House of the Winds

Chandra Mohanty, Feminism Without Borders (Chapter 2)