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Academic Year 2005/2006

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

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS HIST    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-30-2006

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