Dr. des.
Anja Schwarz Office hours: Tuesdays 10-12 (H 232)
anja.schwarz@uni-konstanz.de tel. 88-3726
KEY CONCERNS IN POSTCOLONIAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES
13 April Opening Session
Michael Bérubé (14 September 2009). “What’s the Matter With Cultural Studies?
The popular discipline has lost its bearings.” The Chronicle of Higher Education.
CULTURAL STUDIES
20 April An Introduction to Cultural Studies
Harltey, John (2003). “Introduction – A Philosophy of Plenty: A new Endeavour:
Cultural Studies as an object of study.” A Short History of Cultural Studies. London:
Sage, 2-13.
Barker, Chris (2008). “An Introduction to Cultural Studies.” Cultural Studies: Theory
and Practice, 3rd Edition.” Sage: Los Angeles, 1-38.
27 April Culture and Ideology
Barker, Chris (2008). “Questions of Culture and Ideology.” Cultural Studies: Theory
and Practice, 3rd Edition.” Sage: Los Angeles, 39-73.
Althusser, Louis (2006). “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes
Towards an Investigation [1970].” Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks, edited by
Meenakshi Gigi Durham and Douglas M. Kellner. Malden: Blackwell, 79-87.
Fiske, John (2008). “Interpellation [1992].” Cultural Studies: an Anthology, edited by
Michael Ryan and Hanna Musiol. Malden: Blackwell, 311-315.
04 May Culture, Meaning, Knowledge
Barker, Chris (2008). “Culture, Meaning, Knowledge: The Linguistic Turn in
Cultural Studies.” Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice, 3rd Edition.” Sage: Los
Angeles, 75-110.
Barthes, Roland (1988). “The Death of the Author [1967].” Modern Criticism and
Theory : A Reader, edited by David Lodge. London: Longman, 311-316.
Foucault, Michel (). “What is an Author? [1969]” Modern Criticism and Theory : A
Reader, edited by David Lodge. London: Longman, 280-293.
11 May Subcultures / Consumption
Barker, Chris (2008). “Youth, Style and Resistance (excerpt).” Cultural Studies:
Theory and Practice, 3rd Edition.” Sage: Los Angeles, 406-417.
Hebdige, Dick (2008). “Subculture: The Meaning of Style [1979].” Cultural Studies:
an Anthology, edited by Michael Ryan and Hanna Musiol. Malden: Blackwell, 587-
598.
Morris, Meaghan (1993). “Things to Do With Shopping Centres [1988].” The
Cultural Studies Reader, edited by Simon During. London: Routledge, 295-319.
POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
18 May Postcolonial Studies I [t.b.a.]
25 May Postcolonial Studies II [t.b.a.]
01 June Postcolonial Studies III [t.b.a.]
08 June --- no class: instead: double session on 29 June ---
INTERSECTIONS OF CULTURAL STUDIES AND POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
15 June Identity
Hall, Stuart (2006). “The Question of Cultural Identity [1996].” Modernity: An
Introduction to Modern Societies. Malden: Blackwell, 596-634.
Bauman, Zygmunt (1996). “From Pilgrim to Tourist – or a Short History of
Identity.” Questions of Cultural Identity, edited by Stuart Hall and Paul du Gay.
Sage: London, 18-36.
22 June Gender
Suleri, Sara (1992). “Woman Skin Deep: Feminism and the Postcolonial
Condition.” Critical Inquiry 18(4): 756-769.
Menon, Nivedita (2005). “Between the Burqa and the Beauty Parlor?
Globalization, Cultural Nationalism, and Feminist Politics.” Postcolonial Studies and
Beyond, edited by Ania Loomba et. al. Durham: Duke University Press, 206-229.
29 June Race/Ethnicity + film screening (double session)
Fanon, Frantz (). “The Fact of Blackness.” Identities: Race, Class, Gender, and
Nationality, edited by Linda Martín Alcoff and Eduardo Mendieta. Malden:
Blackwell, 62-74.
Hall, Stuart (1992). “New Ethnicities.” “‘Race’, Culture and Difference,” edited by
J. Donald and A. Rattansi. London: Sage, 252-260.
Muñoz, José Esteban (1996). “Introduction: Performing Disidentifications.”
Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 1-34.
Film screening
Becquer, Marcos and José Gatti (2008). “Elements of Vogue [1997].” Cultural
Studies: an Anthology, edited by Michael Ryan and Hanna Musiol. Malden:
Blackwell, 616-624.
06 July Space
Certeau, Michel de (1993). “Walking the City [1984].” The Cultural Studies Reader,
edited by Simon During. London: Routledge 151-160.
Foucault, Michel (1986). “Of Other Spaces [trans. Jay Miskowiec].” Diacritics
16(1): 22-27.
Text on colonialism and space t.b.a.
13 July Wrapping up: Intersections of Cultural/ Postcolonial Studies
Delgado, Richard and Stefancic, Jean (2001). “Intersectionality.” Critical Race
Theory: An Introduction. New York: New York University Press, 51-56.