Ant 391 Unique 25815
Ward Keeler: ward.keeler@mail.utexas.edu

Wed 2 - 5 EPS 1.136

EPS 1.130 471-8520

Postcoloniality, Anthropology, and Literature

The seminar will discuss the insights postcolonial studies, anthropology,

and literature offer into societies in the world that now live with the

legacy of colonialism. Readings will include essays in postcolonial

studies, anthropology, and literary criticism. But much of the course will

be devoted to the reading of novels written by non-Western writers from

Southeast Asia and South Asia, and Africa. Of particular concern will be

the ways in which people in such places as Indonesia, Vietnam, India, and

Nigeria consider their own ambivalent reactions to the power and prestige

of the West.

Readings are set (tentatively) to include novels by Pramoedya Ananta Toer,

Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie, and Le Luu, and essays by Benedict Anderson,

Timothy Mitchell, Vicente Rafael, and James Siegel.

Books and sets of essays will constitute each week's reading. Students will

be expected to write a half-page comment for each meeting, plus a term

paper.