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Week Fifteen -- December 2/4:
"African-American and Post-Colonial Theory"

Langston Hughes, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," pp. 1311-1317. [1926]
Zora Neale Hurston, "Characteristics of Negro Expression" and "What White Publishers Won't Print," pp. 1144-1162 [1934; 1950]
Frantz Fanon, from The Wretched of the Earth, pp. 1575-1593. [1961]
Barbara Smith, "Toward a Black Feminist Criticism," pp. 2299-2315. [1977]
Edward Said, from Orientalism, pp. 1986-2012. [1978]
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, from A Critique of Postcolonial Reason ["Can the Subaltern Speak?], pp. 2193-2208. [1983; 1999]
Henry Louis Gates, "Talking Black: Critical Signs of the Times," pp. 2421-2432. [1988]
Key Words:

from Glossary of Literary Theory (Greig E. Henderson and Christopher Brown):
from k.i.s.s. of the panopticon (Dougie Bicket):
from Words of Art (Robert J. Belton):

On-line Resources for
"African-American and Post-Colonial Theory"

"African-American Theory and Criticism" -- Theodore O. Mason, Jr., The Johns Hopkins Guide to Theory and Criticism

"Postcolonial Cultural Studies" -- Georg M. Gugelberger, The Johns Hopkins Guide to Theory and Criticism

Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English -- George Landow, National U. of Singapore (excellent and extensive site)

Langston Hughes -- Cary Nelson (U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), MAPS: Modern American Poetry
Zora Neale Hurston

interview with Carla Kaplan, author of Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters -- Jerry Jazz Musician.com

"Frantz Fanon" -- Biodun Jeyifo, The Johns Hopkins Guide to Theory and Criticism

"Frantz Fanon" -- Deepika Bahri, Emory U.
Frantz Fanon -- George Landow (National U. of Singapore), Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English
from Fanon For Beginners -- Deborah Wyrick, North Carolina State U.

"African Theory and Criticism" -- Gîtahi Gîtîtî, The Johns Hopkins Guide to Theory and Criticism
"Wole Soyinka" -- Ketu H. Katrak, The Johns Hopkins Guide to Theory and Criticism

African American Feminism bibliography -- Kristin Switala (Virginia Tech U.), Feminist Theory Website

"Edward Said" -- James J. Sosnoski, The Johns Hopkins Guide to Theory and Criticism

Edward W. Said and Postcolonial Theory -- George Landow (National U. of Singapore), Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English

Race and Postcolonialism, II: Edward Said, "Orientalism" -- Jayson Sae-Saue, U. of Colorado, Boulder
"Orientalism" -- Danielle Sered, Emory U.
"on Eurocentrism" -- an excerpt from Said's "Yeats and Decolonization" (1988)
"Culture and Imperialism" -- Edward Said (1993)
"Israel, Iraq and the US" -- Edward Said, Counterpunch (October 2002)

"Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak" -- Sarah Harasym, The Johns Hopkins Guide to Theory and Criticism

Glosssary of Key Terms in the Work of Gayatri Chakrovarty Spivak -- Michael Kilburn, Emory U.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- George Landow (National U. of Singapore), Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English

Race and Postcolonialism, I: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "The Blackness of Blackness: The Critique of the Sign and the Signifying Monkey" -- Mary Klages, U. of Colorado, Boulder
"African American Criticism" -- Henry Louis Gates, from Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies. Ed. Stephen Greenblatt and Giles Gunn. (1992)
"The Making of Henry Louis Gates, CEO" -- Craig Offerman, Salon.com (1999)
"A Millennium Letter to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Concluding a Dialogue?" -- Ali A. Mazrui, West Africa Review (2000)