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Academic Year 2002/2003
Orientalism
HIST 366 FA
This upper-level seminar is designed to introduce students to post-modernism and deconstruction as they are applied in South Asian historiography. We will begin with the work of Edward Said and others who have built on
the "post-Orientalist" critique, then we will consider the Subaltern Studies collective and allied scholarship, and then conclude with responses.
MAJOR READINGS
Edward Said, ORIENTALISM
Edward Said, CULTURE AND IMPERIALISM
Ranajit Guha et al, SELECTED SUBALTERN STUDIES
Ranajit Guha, DOMINANCE WITHOUT HEGEMONY: HISTORY & POWER IN COLONIAL INDIA
Ron Inden, IMAGINING
INDIA
Tapan Raychaudhuri, EUROPE
RECONSIDERED
Nicholas Dirks, CASTES OF MIND
Chris Bayly, EMPIRE AND INFORMATION
Bernard Cohn, COLONIALISM AND ITS FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE
Dipesh Chakrabarty, PROVINCIALIZING EUROPE
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed
Drop/Add form to the Registrar's
Office.
The instructor of this course will not be using the on-line wait list. If you are interested in this course, please contact the instructor directly.
COURSE FORMAT:
Seminar
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS HIST
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
NONE
SECTION 01
- Instructor(s): Pinch,William (Vijay)
- Times: ..T.... 07:00PM-09:50PM; Location: PAC413
- Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 10)
- SR. major: Jr. major:
- SR. non-major: Jr. non-major: SO: FR:
Special Attributes:
- Permission: Permission of Instructor Required
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Last Updated on MAR-18-2003
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