ENGL 581

Spring 2013

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Seminar Literary Theory
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Credit: 4 hours.

May be repeated if topics vary. Prerequisite: A college course devoted entirely to criticism or consent of instructor.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
48036
Lecture-Discussion
A
3:00PM -5:50PM
R
1020 Lincoln Hall
Byrd, J
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/14/13-05/01/13
Section Title:
Indigenous Critical Theory
Section Info:
meets with AIS 501 Sovereign Acts, Settler States: This class proposes a dialogue of sorts among theoretical traditions to interrogate how postcolonialities, state and indigenous sovereignties, and subalternities function within the larger contexts of settler colonialism. How do theories of colonialism and postcolonialism prioritize certain geographical and historical contexts and in what ways do those theories succeed or fail in addressing indigeneity? How has sovereignty functioned as both coercive, normative control within the legal practices of the state, and how has it been redeployed by indigenous scholars to confront those same practices? What challenge does indigeneity pose to critical theory and how might indigenous scholars transform critical practices to address the ongoing colonizations that continue to define their lands, rights, and sovereignty? Finally, how might the intersection between literary, political, and cultural studies provide new avenues for interdisciplinary methods and inquiry when sited through indigenous issues and contexts? Required Texts: Barker, Joanne. Native Acts. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. Derrida, Jacques. The Beast & the Sovereign vol. 1. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Eng, David L. The Feeling of Kinship. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. Ford, Lisa. Settler Sovereignty. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010. Lyons, Scott. X-Marks. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. Mbembe, Achille. On the Postcolony. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Williams Jr., Robert A. Like a Loaded Weapon. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. Recommended Texts: Bruyneel, Kevin. The Third Space of Sovereignty. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. Morgensen, Scott. The Spaces Between Us. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. O?Brien, Jean M. Firsting and Lasting. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. Rifkin, Mark. When Did Indians Become Straight?: Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty. Oxford University Prress, 2011. Turner, Dale. This is Not a Peace Pipe. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. Course Requirements: The following are the minimum requirements for adequate completion of the class.
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Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
32282
Lecture-Discussion
G
3:00PM -5:50PM
M
113 English Building
Koshy, S
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/14/13-05/01/13
Section Title:
Race & Neoliberalism
Section Info:
Topic Section G: Race and Neoliberalism The transition from a liberal state-led economy to a neoliberal market economy in the 1980s produced a sea change in racial forms and meanings that confounds the paradigms of race inherited from the civil rights era. The implications of these racial transformations have only recently begun to be theorized, highlighting a lacuna in critical race theory, which has largely focused on neoconservative threats to racial justice projects rather than neoliberal embrace of them. Similarly, most theoretical accounts of neoliberalism have left the reconstitution of race, gender, and sexuality in the present untheorized. Working with and between materialist accounts of the present and theories of race, gender and sexuality, this course begins the work of examining the unstable and shifting terrain of neoliberal racialization. Readings for this course will include David Harvey, Michel Foucault, Brian Massumi, Wendy Brown, Jodi Melamed, Roderick Ferguson, Jasbir Puar, Lauren Berlant, Gayatri Spivak, and Paul Gilroy. Possible literary texts and films we will consider are Precious, Cosmopolis, Fixer Chao, and American Psycho.
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Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
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