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Academic Year 2004/2005
Orientalism
HIST 366 SP
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
Dipesh Chakrabarty, PROVINCIALIZING EUROPE
Partha Chatterjee, A NATION AND ITS FRAGMENTS
Bernard Cohn, COLONIALISM AND ITS FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE
Chris Bayly, EMPIRE AND INFORMATION
And articles
by Gyan Prakash, Rosalind O'Hanlon,
David Washbrook, Sumit Sarkar, K. Sivaramakrishnan, William Pinch, David Kopf, Richard Eaton, S.N. Mukherjee
COURSE FORMAT:
Seminar
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS HIST
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
NONE
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Last Updated on MAR-21-2005
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