Week Sixteen -- December 6: 
"African-American and Post-Colonial Theory"

• Langston Hughes, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,"  pp. 1190-1196.   [1926]
• Zora Neale Hurston, "Characteristics of Negro Expression" and "What White Publishers Won't Print,"  pp. 1006-1027.    [1934; 1950]
• Frantz Fanon,  from The Wretched of the Earth,  pp. 1337-1346.  [1961]
  
• Barbara Smith, "Toward a Black Feminist Criticism,"  pp. 2221-2237.  [1977]
• Edward Said,  from Orientalism; from Culture and Imperialism,   pp. 1861-1904.   [1978]
  
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak,  from A Critique of Postcolonial Reason ["Can the Subaltern Speak?],  pp. 2110-2126.   [1983; 1999]
  
• Henry Louis Gates,  "Talking Black:  Critical Signs of the Times,"   pp. 2427-2438.  [1988] 
  
• Key Words: 
• from Words of Art  (Robert J. Belton):
• Afrocentric
• Eurocentricism
• Orientalism
  
• postcolonial
• racism
• from Wikipedia:
• subaltern
  

• Black (African-American) Literary Criticism -- John Lye, Brock U., Canada
• African-American Literature  --  Wikipedia
  
• Black Arts Movement  --  Wikipedia
• "Current Thought in African-American Literary Criticism: An Introduction"   --  Reginald Martin, College English  (1990)   [availabe on JSTOR thru Magale Library]
• "Bakhtin in African American Literary Theory"  --  Dorothy J. Hale, ELH   (1994)   [availabe on JSTOR thru Magale Library] 
• African-American Criticism  --  Paul H. Fry, Yale U.  [video lecture]

• Some Issues in Postcolonial Theory  --  John Lye, Brock U., Canada
• Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English  --  George Landow,  National U. of Singapore  (excellent and extensive site)
  
• excerpts from The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures -- Bill Ashcroft,  Gareth Griffiths,  Helen Tiffin
• "Introduction to Postcolonial Studies"  --  Deepika Bahri,  Emory U.
  
• "From Redistribution to Recognition:  A Left Critique of Multiculturalism"  -- Anis Shivani, Counterpunch
• Jouvert:  A Journal of Postcolonial Studies  --  very fine on-line journal from North Carolina State U. 
  
• "Feminism and the Critique of Colonial Discourse"  -- Special Issue:  Inscriptions 3-4  --  Deborah Gordon, ed.  
• bibliography of Post-Colonial and African-American Aesthetics/Critical Theory  --  U. of West Indies, Barbados
• Post-Colonial Criticism  --  Paul H. Fry, Yale U.  [video lecture]

• Langston Hughes  --  Wikipedia
• Langston Hughes  --  Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper, Gale Cengage Learning
• Langston Hughes  --  Cary Nelson  (U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign),  MAPS:  Modern American Poetry
• Zora Neale Hurston -- Wikipedia
• Zora Neale Hurston  --  Lillie P. Howard and Laura M. Zaidman, Gale Cengage Learning
  
• interview with Carla Kaplan,  author of Zora Neale Hurston:  A Life in Letters  --  Jerry Jazz Musician.com
• Zora Neale Hurston  --  Paul P. Reuben,  PAL: Perspectives in American Literature
• Frantz Fanon --Wikipedia
• Frantz Fanon  --  Deepika Bahri,  Emory U.  
• "Frantz Fanon:  The Doctor Prescribed Violence"  -- Adam Shatz, New York Times
• "That the Tool Never Possess the Man:  Taking Fanon's Humanism Seriously"  --  Richard Pithouse, U. of Central Florida
  
• "Frantz Fanon"  --  Joan Tronto, Hunter College
• notes on Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks  --  Richard Clarke, U. of West Indies
  
• notes on Fanon's "The Negro and Pyschopathology"  [from Black Skin, White Masks]  --  Richard Clarke, U. of West Indies
• notes on Fanon's "Concerning Violence"   [from The Wretched of the Earth]  --  Richard Clarke, U. of West Indies
  
• Frantz Fanon  --  Postcolonial Web
• Barbara Smith  --  Wikipedia
• Barbara Smith -- QueerTheory.com
  
• interview with Barbara Smith  --  Michael Bronski,  Boston Phoenix  (1999) 
• “All of Who I am in the Same Place”: The Combahee River Collective"  --  Duchess Harris, Macalester College
• African American Feminism bibliography  --  Kristin Switala (Virginia Tech U.),   Feminist Theory Website
  
• Edward Said  -- Wikipedia
• Edward Said, "Orientalism"  --  Mary Klages,  U. of Colorado, Boulder
  
• Edward W. Said and Postcolonial Theory  --  Postcolonial Web
• "Orientalism" -- Danielle Sered,  Emory U.
  
• "on Eurocentrism"  -- an excerpt from Said's "Yeats and Decolonization"  (1988) 
  
• "Israel, Iraq and the US"  --  Edward Said, Counterpunch  (October 2002)
• video interview with Edward Said on Booknotes with Brian Lamb
• On Orientalism, Part I  -- Edward Said interview on YouTube
• On Orientalism, Part II  --  Edward Said interview on YouTube
• On Orientalism, Part III  --  Edward Said interview on YouTube
• On Orientalism, Part IV  -- Edward Said interview on YouTube
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak  -- Wikipedia
• Gayatri Chakrovarty Spivak  --  Michael Kilburn,  Emory U.
  
• Glosssary of Key Terms in the Work of Gayatri Chakrovarty Spivak  --  Michael Kilburn,  Emory U. 
  
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak  --  Postcolonial Web
• Henry Louis Gates  --  Wikipedia
• Henry Louis Gates  --  Tomas Jaehn,  Stanford U.
  
• The Signifying Monkey  --  Wikipedia
• Gates's The Signifying Monkey  --  Mary Klages,  U. of Colorado, Boulder
  
• Henry Louis Gates biography  --  Gale Cengage Learning  
  
• "The Making of Henry Louis Gates, CEO"  --  Craig Offerman,  Salon.com  (1999) 
• video interview with Henry Louis Gates on Booknotes with Brian Lamb