Theory and Practice in Transatlantic Comparison - Semester 1
TIME: Mondays 2-4pm (beginning in Week 2)
LOCATION: Ground floor seminar room, IASH, Hope Park Square
Please bring your copy of Transatlantic Literary Studies: A Reader to all classes.
SEMINAR 1: Transatlantic Studies: Exception or Inclusion - Dr Andrew Taylor
*Transatlantic Literary Studies: A Reader, 'Introduction'
Additional texts:
Dimock, Wai Chee, 'Deep Time: American Literature and World History,' American Literary History, 13.4 (2001): 755-75
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_literary_history/v013/13.4dimock.pdf
Watson, Tim, 'Is the "Post" in Postcolonial Studies the US in American Studies?'
(available to download from STAR site) http://www.star.ac.uk
SEMINAR 2: Forms of Comparison 1 - Dr Fiona Mackintosh
*Transatlantic Literary Studies: A Reader, 75-111
Additional texts:
Bassnett, Susan, 'How Comparative Literature Came into Being' and 'Comparative
Identities in the Postcolonial World', Comparative Literature (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993)
SEMINAR 3: Nation Theory - Dr Michelle Keown
* Transatlantic Literary Studies: a Reader, 17 - 74
Additional texts:
Anderson, Benedict, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (New York: Verso, 1991)
Bhabha, Homi (ed.), Nation and Narration (London: Routledge, 1990)
SEMINAR 4: Nation and Cosmopolitanism - Dr Andrew Taylor
*Transatlantic Literary Studies: a Reader, 17 - 74
Additional texts:
Derrida, Jacques, On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness (London: Routledge, 2001),
sections from Appiah, Kwame Anthony, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (London: Allen Lane, 2006)
Brennan, Timothy, At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997)
SEMINAR 5: Imperialism and the Postcolonial - Dr Michelle Keown
*Transatlantic Literary Studies: a Reader, 121-166
Additional texts:
Césaire, Aimé, Notebook of a Return to my Native Land (Newcastle: Bloodaxe Books, 1995)
SEMINAR 6: Atlanticism - Dr Keith Hughes
*Fanon, Franz, Black Skin, White Masks, (London: Pluto press, 1986)
O'Reilly, William, 'Genealogies of Atlantic History', Atlantic Studies 1.1. (2004)
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a713703571~db=all=order=page
Gilroy, Paul, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Piot, Charles, 'Atlantic Aporias: Africa and Gilroy's Black Atlantic,' The South Atlantic Quarterly 100.1 (2001). http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/south_atlantic_quarterly/v100/100.1piot.pdf
SEMINAR 7: Travel Theory, 'Travelling Theory' and Transatlantic Travellers as Theorists - Dr Maria Filippakopolou
*Transatlantic Literary Studies: a Reader, 281-238.
Additional texts:
Theodor Adorno, 'Words from Abroad', in Notes to literature, ed. Rolf Tiedemann; trans. Shierry Weber Nicholsen (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991)
The Editor's introduction to Rigoberta Menchu, I, Rigoberta Menchu: an Indian woman in Guatemala (London: Verso, 1984), pp. xi-xxi .
Mary Louise Pratt, 'Planetarity', in Intercultural Dialogue, ed. Rosemary Bechler (London: British Council, 2004), pp. 11-31 [available in handouts]. Excerpts from Andre Dubus III's House of Sand and Fog (London: W. Heinemann, 2000)
SEMINAR 8: Forms of Comparison II: Comparatism and American Studies - Dr Andrew Taylor
*Transatlantic Literary Studies: a Reader, 75-111
Additional texts:
Chow, Rey, "The Old/New Question of Comparison in Literary Studies: A Post- European Perspective", ELH 71.2 (2004): 289-311
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/elh/v071/71.2chow.pdf
Ramazani, Jahan, "A Transnational Poetics", American Literary History 18.2 (2006): 332-59
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_literary_history/v018/18.2ramazani.pdf
SEMINAR 9: Translation -Dr Filippakopolou
*Transatlantic Literary Studies: a Reader, 167-214
Additional texts:
T.S. Eliot, 'From Poe to Valéry', in To Criticize the Critic and Other Writings (London: Faber and Faber, 1965).
Francis Mulhern, 'Translation, Re-writing Degree Zero', in The Present Lasts a Long Time: Essays in Cultural Politics (Cork: Cork University Press, 1998), pp. 164-70.
William Carlos Williams, 'Edgar Allan Poe', in In the American Grain: Essays (London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1966), pp. 216-33.
SEMINAR 10: Style and Genre - Dr Keith Hughes
*Transatlantic Literary Studies: a Reader, 215-280
Additional texts:
Dimock, Wai Chee, 'Genre as World System: Epic and Novel on Four Continents', Narrative 14.1 (2006): 85-101 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/narrative/v014/14.1dimock.pdf
CORE THEMES AND TEXTS IN TRANSATLANTIC STUDY -
SEMESTER 2, BEGINNING IN WEEK 1
Seminar 1: Monday 11th January 2010 - Dr Kevin Halliwell
*Meet in the NLS foyer on George IV Bridge at 2pm promptly*
A general introduction to the National Library of Scotland and its collections, pointing in particular to collections of relevance to Transatlantic Studies. This will include modern and antiquarian collections and manuscripts, and will also cover information sources about the collections, both printed and online. There will be a demonstration of the digital collections of early American imprints in the Library. This will be followed by a talk about different types of 'Transatlantic' literature, including the literature of emigration, both literary and 'marginal' texts.
Seminar 2: New Starts and Old Burdens - Dr Keith Hughes
de Crèvecoeur, Hector St John, Letters from an American Farmer (1782) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997)
Seminar 3: Routes and Roots - Dr Keith Hughes
Phillips, Caryl, Crossing the River (London: Faber, 2000)
Seminar 4: Conversations and Correspondences - Dr Tim Milnes
Carlyle, Thomas, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872 (Dodo Press)
Thompson, Frank T., 'Emerson and Carlyle,' Studies in Philology 24 (1927): 438-453
[search on http://carlin.lib.ed.ac.uk:2083/home.do ]
Seminar 5: Constructing National Histories - Dr Andrew Taylor
Herman Melville, Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile (1854, 1855) (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1997)
Seminar 6: Hispanic Transatlanticism I - Dr Iona Macintyre
Andrés Bello, 'Allocution to Poetry' in Selected Writings of Andrés Bello, trans. Frances M. López Morillas (Oxford: OUP, 1997) or in the original Spanish, 'Alocución a la poesía' (London, 1823) http://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Alocuci%C3%B3n_a_la_Poes%C3%ADa
Seminar 7: Hispanic Transatlanticism II - Dr Fiona Mackintosh
Edgardo Cozarinsky, Urban Voodoo (Lumen Books, 1990), or in Spanish, Vudú urbano (Barcelona: Anagrama, 1985; Buenos Aires: Emecé, 202;2007)
Seminar 8: Italian Transatlanticism - Dr Claudia Nocentini
Melania G. Mazzucco, Vita, translated by Virginia Jewiss (Picador, 2006)
Seminar 9: Postmodern Transatlanticism - Dr Andrew Taylor
Ballard, J.G., Hello America (1981) (London: Vintage, 1994)
Sections of Jean Baudrillard, America (1989) Xerox copies available.
Seminar 10: pre-dissertation presentations - Dr Fiona Mackintosh
Additional Secondary material will be suggested by the course tutors as appropriate.
The second Essay assignment is due by 3pm on Thursday 8th April 2010, and will be marked and returned within 3 weeks.
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