Difference & Desire

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Reading List

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Winter 2001

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Partial List of Readings (In Assigned Order)

Ann Laura Stoler, “Colonial Studies and The History of Sexuality,” in Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things (Durham: Duke University Press, 1995) 1-54.

Judith Butler, “Desire, Rhetoric, and Recognition in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit,” in Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France (New York: Columbia University Press, [1987] 1999) 17-59.

Mark Nash, Isaac Julien, Martina Attille, Raoul Peck, Homi K. Bhabha, “Film-makers’ Dialogue,” and bell hooks, Lyle Ashton Harris, Gilane Tawadros, Homi K. Bhabha, Members of the audience, “Dialogue” in The Fact of Blackness (London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1996) 166-183

Kaja Silverman, “The Gaze,” in Threshold of the Visible World (New York: Routledge, 1996) 125-161.

Robert J.C. Young, “Hybridity and Diaspora,” in Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture, and Race (London and New York: Routledge, 1995) 1-28.

Cornel West, “The New Cultural Politics of Difference,” in Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures (New York: The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1990) 19-36.

M.A. Jaimes-Guerrero, “Savage Hegemony: From ‘Endangered Species’ to Feminist Indiginism,” in Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age, ed. Ella Shohat (New York: The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1998) 413-439

Richard Dyer, “The Matter of Whiteness,” in White, New York: Routledge, 1997, 1-40.

Ghassan Hage, “Good White Nationalists: The Tolerant Society as a White Fantasy,” in White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society (Annandale, Australia: Pluto Press, 1998) 78-116.

Maurice Berger, Brian Wallis, and Simon Watson, “Introduction,” in Constructing Masculinity (New York: Routledge, 1995) 1-7.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, “Gosh, Boy George, You Must Be Awfully Secure in Your Masculinity” in Constructing Masculinity, ed. Maurice Berger, Brian Wallis, and Simon Watson (New York: Routledge, 1995) 12-20.

Judith Butler, “Melancholy Gender/Refused Identification,” in Constructing Masculinity, ed. Maurice Berger, Brian Wallis, and Simon Watson (New York: Routledge, 1995) 21-36.

Carole S. Vance, “Social Construction Theory and Sexuality,” in Constructing Masculinity, ed. Maurice Berger, Brian Wallis, and Simon Watson (New York: Routledge, 1995) 37-48.

Wayen Koestenbaum, “The Aryan Boy Who Pissed on My Father’s Head,” in Constructing Masculinity, ed. Maurice Berger, Brian Wallis, and Simon Watson (New York: Routledge, 1995) 49-56.

Homi K. Bhabha, “Are You a Man or a Mouse?” in Constructing Masculinity, ed. Maurice Berger, Brian Wallis, and Simon Watson (New York: Routledge, 1995) 57-65.

Michael Taussig, “The Disorganization of the ‘Organization of Mimesis:’ The Subcomandante Unmasked,” “Refacement: A History of Reading,” “Unmasking and Proliferation,” in Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative, (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998) 223-264.

Enrique Dussel, “Beyond Eurocentrism: The World-System and the Limits of Modernity,” in The Cultures of Globalization, ed. Fredric Jameson and Masao Miyoshi (Durham: Duke University Press, 1998) 3-31.

Fredric Jameson, “Notes on Globalization as a Philosophical Issue,” in The Cultures of Globalization, ed. Fredric Jameson and Masao Miyoshi (Durham: Duke University Press, 1998) 54-77

Noam Chomsky, “Free Trade and Free Market: Pretense and Practice,” in The Cultures of Globalization, ed., Fredric Jameson and Masao Miyoshi (Durham: Duke University Press, 1998) 356-370.

Paula A. Traichler, “AIDS and HIV infection in the Third World: A First World Chronicle,” in AIDS: The Making of a Chronic Disease, eds. Elizabeth Fee and Daniel M. Fox (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992) 377-412.

Cindy Patton, “Inventing ‘African AIDS,’” in Inventing Aids (New York: Routledge, 1990) 77-97.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “Setting to Work (Transnational Cultural Studies),” in A Critical Sense: Interviews with Intellectuals, New York: Routledge, 1996:163-177.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “Translator’s Preface and Afterword to Mahasweta Devi Imaginary Maps,” in The Spivak Reader (New York: Routledge, 1996) 267-286.

Edward Said, “Orientalism and After,” in A Critical Sense: Interviews with Intellectuals, New York: Routledge, 1996: 65-86.

David Lloyd, “Nationalisms against the State,” in The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997) 173-197.