Introduction to course
8/27 Syllabus, expectations
* Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, “the university: last words” (2020)
9/1 The intensity of deterritorialized writing
* Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, “What Is a Minor Literature?” (1975)
9/3 * Deleuze and Guattari, continued
→ Create discussion guidelines
India
9/8 ✍ Antecedent divisions and partition
Saadat Hasam Manto, “Sorry” and “The Return” (1951)
9/10 ✍ Conjuring trauma through the space of the poem
Bhanu Kapil, “1947: Spell to Reverse a Line” (2018)
→ Presentation 1
9/15 Articulating violence and the past
* Veena Das, “Language and Body: Transactions in the Construction of Pain” (2007)
South Africa
9/17 ✍ Foretelling the “discarded wealth” of dis-carded classes
Bessie Head, Maru (1971)
9/22 ✍ Head, continued (✍ 9/22 or 9/24)
→ Presentation 2
9/24 Head, continued
9/29 No class (Monday schedule for CCNY)
10/1 ✍ Entanglements of truth and reconciliation
Lewis Nkosi, Black Psychiatrist (1994)
→ Presentation 3
10/6 Domination and the limits of the imagination
* J. M. Coetzee, “Jerusalem Prize Acceptance Speech” (1987)
Writing
10/8 Sources workshop
10/13 Midterm
Nigeria
10/15 ✍ Transnational cosmopolitanism
Teju Cole, Open City (2011)
10/20 ✍ Cole, continued (✍ 10/20 or 10/22)
→ Presentation 4
10/22 Cole, continued
10/27 ✍ Cole, continued (✍ 10/27 or 10/29)
→ Presentation 5
10/29 Cole, continued
11/3 No class (Election Day)
11/5 (Re)cognizing meaning in images
* Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida (1980)
Writing
11/10 Digital essays workshop
Guest visit: Dr. Jojo Karlin, Postdoctoral Fellow of Digital Scholarship Services, NYU
Caribbean
11/12 ✍ Scales of encounter (✍ 11/12 or 11/17)
Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place (1988)
11/17 Kincaid, continued
→ Presentation 6
11/19 ✍ Hybrid meanings and pasts
Edwidge Danticat, “Book of the Dead” from Dew Breaker (2004)
→ Presentation 7
11/24 Créolité and the errantry of language
* Edouard Glissant, “Errantry, Exile” from Poetics of Relation (1990)
Australia
11/26 College closed
12/1 ✍ Moral ambiguity, verbal originality
Marjorie Bil Bil, It Just Lies There From the Beginning (1995)
Patrick White, “The Screaming Potato” (1987)
→ Presentation 8
12/3 ✍ Graphic expression of refugee and indigenous experience
Safdar Ahmed, Villawood (2015)
Tracey Moffatt, Spirit Landscapes (2013)
12/8 Last class: Fabulating collectivity
* Elizabeth Povinelli, Angela Lewis, Cecilia Lewis, Joclyn MacDonald, Linda Yarrowin, and Sandra Yarrowin, “Australian Babel” (2017)
End of course
12/17 Final essay due
* Theoretical texts
✍ Annotation assignments
Header image: Tracey Moffatt, Suburban No. 2. ‘Crossed the Creek’, 2013
