Fall 1998	Anuradha Dingwaney Needham
English 148	109 Rice Hall
T,Th 11:00-12:15	Office Hours: T,Th 10:00-11:00; 12:30-1:00 & by appt.
	Phone: 775-8653 (office) / 774-1230 (home)

This course will analyze the pedagogies through which (British) colonialism (re)-made colonial subjects and subjectivities. It will focus especially on the scenes of instruction in a variety of anglophone texts from the so-called third world.

Texts:
	Ama Ata Aidoo, Our Sister Killjoy
	Michelle Cliff, Abeng
	Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
	Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
	Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
	Merle Hodge, Crick Crack Monkey
	Rudyard Kipling, Kim
	Earl Lovelace, Wine of Astonishment
	Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North

In addition, we will read the following pieces: Thomas MacCaulay's "Minute on Indian Education," Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's "On the Abolition of the English Department," Gauri Viswanathan's "Currying Favor," and Edward Said's "Introduction" to Orientalism.

Tentative Class Schedule:

Sept. 3:	Introduction: Discussion of readings, requirements and procedures
Sept. 8, 10:	"Currying Favor", "Introduction" to Orientalism, "Minute," and "Abolition"
Sept. 15, 17:	Crick Crack Monkey
Sept. 22, 24:	Black Skin, White Masks
Sept. 28, 30:	Individual conferences for Paper 1 (optional)
Sept. 29:	In-class workshop for Paper 1 (mandatory)
Oct. 1:	Paper 1 due; General discussion
Oct. 6, 8:	Heart of Darkness
Oct. 13, 15:	Season of Migration
	FALL BREAK
Oct. 27, 29:	Abeng
Oct. 30, Nov. 2:	Individual conferences for Paper 2 (optional)
Nov. 3:	In-class workshop for Paper 2 (mandatory)
Nov. 5:	Paper 2 due; No class
Nov. 10, 12:	Our Sister Killjoy
Nov. 17, 19:	Wine of Astonishment
Nov. 24:	Robinson Crusoe
	THANKSGIVING BREAK
Dec. 1:	Robinson Crusoe continued
Dec. 3, 8:	Kim
Dec. 10:	Conclusion; evaluation

Requirements and Procedures:

You will write three 8-10 page papers for this course. For each paper, you will have to explicitly identify a specific issue/problematic that engages you in a given text or texts, justify why it's worth talking about, clarify the assumptions that undergird your interest in it. Your paper should be organized coherently around this specific issue/problematic and function as a well-developed argument with supporting evidence from examples from the text(s) you choose for analysis. For the first two papers you will discuss drafts in in-class workshops. For the third paper, you will discuss your rough drafts with me in individual conferences. You may revise papers for a better grade/improved argument; revisions are due within a week of my returning graded papers to you. Each paper should cover one, or two, or all of the readings from the immediately preceding section. Thus, paper 1 will focus on the four xeroxed readings, or Crick Crack, or Black Skin, or a combination or all of them; paper 2 on Heart of Darkness, or Season, or Abeng, or two, or all of them, and so on.

Late submissions of papers is not encouraged, although, in an emergency, I do grant extensions. Extensions must be cleared with me prior to the date on which papers are due. Otherwise late papers are penalized a letter grade for each day they are late.

Due dates for papers are as follows:

Oct. 1:	Paper 1
Nov. 15:	Paper 2
Dec. 13:	Paper 3

My classes are organized around discussions; it is imperative, therefore, that you read and come prepared to discuss all the work assigned for the date on which it is specified. I do not hesitate to call upon specific students whether or not they have indicated their wish to participate. Class participation counts for 25% of the final grade, with papers 1, 2, and 3 counting for 25% each.

You cannot pass this course unless you have completed all the written work.