tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post4621205571158662683..comments2024-03-15T01:11:32.832-07:00Comments on Bardiac: Fantasy Class Time - Grad Student ChallengeBardiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-62232109368321992342008-04-15T21:40:00.000-07:002008-04-15T21:40:00.000-07:00Ted Steinberg has a new book out on Jewish life in...Ted Steinberg has a new book out on Jewish life in the Middle Ages. I have to link to this <A HREF="http://ww2.fredonia.edu/news/NewsRoom/tabid/1101/ctl/ArticleView/mid/1878/articleId/764/Default.aspx" REL="nofollow">press release</A> b/c I love the author photo. It would go great with Amitav Ghosh's <I>In an Antique Land</I>, which uses his historical detective story tracking down the Indian slave of a North African Jewish merchant in the pre-1498 Indian Ocean basin as a counterpoint to his expose of fundamentalisms' rewriting of history in the post-1945 breakdown of the European colonial order. (Yeah, I've just revealed that I've read Ghosh and haven't read my colleague's book yet! Sorry, Ted!)The Constructivisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07242149985581771922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-1069601936575910692008-04-14T06:33:00.000-07:002008-04-14T06:33:00.000-07:00Wow, these are GREAT suggestions!I'd love some mor...Wow, these are GREAT suggestions!<BR/><BR/>I'd love some more, please!Bardiachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-26542597218500327882008-04-13T14:22:00.000-07:002008-04-13T14:22:00.000-07:00WHy don't you do Southerne's play of Oroonoko? It...WHy don't you do Southerne's play of Oroonoko? It's totally bizarre, with the Oroonoko plot grafted on to a Restoration comedy (complete with bed trick and disguise). And since Imoinda is white in the play, it raises all sorts of questions about race.<BR/><BR/>An alternative would be Behn's Widow Ranter, which has Indians but not black slaves in Virginia.<BR/><BR/>What I've been interested in is how invisible the English practice of slavery is in 17th C lit, aside from Oroonoko. So huge dimensions of the process of colonization are invisible. . .Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09716705206734059708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-74156074044244940472008-04-12T19:17:00.000-07:002008-04-12T19:17:00.000-07:00Ditto on the Spurr, which, though not an undergrad...Ditto on the Spurr, which, though not an undergraduate text, seems to get at tropes of Imperial discourse with remarkable clarity. Last fall I used McLeod's *Beginning PostColonialism* but a lot of post-colonial theory has to do with literatures produced after the colonial period, so nationalism and its travails are big foci there, and may be irrelevant. The first 2 chapters could be quite useful, though. And of course, never under-estimate the enduring appeal of Said's *Orientalism*.<BR/><BR/>More specifically, I could also suggest the work of my colleague Jonathan Burton, whose book *Traffic and Turning* is on precisely the subject of your class, and he has just co-edited with Ania Loomba a collection of primary source materials on race in the Early Modern period from Plagrave, I think. It looks just stunning. Hope that helps!Horacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15662740021328265642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-53516301981701755872008-04-12T14:28:00.000-07:002008-04-12T14:28:00.000-07:00Your course dilemmas sound like fun!Post-colonial ...Your course dilemmas sound like fun!<BR/><BR/>Post-colonial writings for early modern England? I think there's some interesting material on Spenser and Ireland but it's not relating to drama. However, it's really good for students to understand the contentious nature of Anglo-Irish relations at this time, and from a post-colonial perspective.<BR/><BR/>Bruce Avery, (1990), 'Mapping the Irish Other: Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ireland', <I>English Literary History</I> 57(2), 263-79.<BR/><BR/>For Chaucer, htere are a couple of interesting articles in Jeffrey J. Cohen, ed., (2001), 'The Postcolonial Middle Ages' Palgrave Macmillan.Janicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14093558563358431804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-74882877308018703312008-04-12T08:56:00.000-07:002008-04-12T08:56:00.000-07:00For the Chaucer class, I like Karma Lochrie's Exem...For the Chaucer class, I like Karma Lochrie's Exemplaria article on women's "privitees" in the Miller's Tale (the full title escapes me). The writing is clear, but students have to grapple with some abstract ideas, especially the idea that the "exchange" of women isn't literal or conscious -- John and Nicholas don't meet and cut some kind of deal -- but part of an unspoken (i.e., privy!) system. Plus, they like the Miller's Tale.Dr. Viragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03960384082670286328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-52283980487200174662008-04-12T07:44:00.000-07:002008-04-12T07:44:00.000-07:00Ooo, I nominate The Fair Maid of the West for Cate...Ooo, I nominate <A HREF="http://fporpentine.blogspot.com/2007/06/summer-reading-fair-maid-of-west-parts.html" REL="nofollow">The Fair Maid of the West</A> for Category 2. (It is a two-parter, but a REALLY quick read and super fun, and it has lots of Moors in it.) Unfortunately, I don't think there are any editions currently in print, so you'd have to use a course pack.Fretful Porpentinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11165078003123517013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-82190581135649201722008-04-12T06:44:00.000-07:002008-04-12T06:44:00.000-07:00david spurr - the rhetoric of empire colonial disc...david spurr - the rhetoric of empire colonial discourse in journalism, travel writing, and imperial administration duke university press 1993Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-61027571463407654522008-04-12T04:47:00.000-07:002008-04-12T04:47:00.000-07:00No idea if any of this is appropriate as to period...No idea if any of this is appropriate as to period and what you're shooting for, but Three Ladies of London?Sarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15606922510495018342noreply@blogger.com