We're pleased to announce that the Postcolonial Perspectives reading group will hold its first meeting of the academic year from 4.30 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday 3 November, in BSB 007 (Berrick Saul Building). All postgraduates and staff with an interest in the field are invited to attend.
Our first meeting of the year will focus on the ways in which a range of disciplines have responded to Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978), a seminal text in the development of postcolonial studies as a subset of literary theory. In preparation for the meeting, please read at least one of the following articles. All are available online via the Library, apart from Zeynep Çelik’s essay – photocopies of this will be available to collect beside the photocopier on the lower ground floor of the Berrick Saul Building Postgraduate Study Area. If you are unable to access this, please let us know and we can arrange to get a copy to you.
• Çelik, Zeynep. "Speaking back to Orientalist discourse" in Orientalism's Interlocutors (in library, book on visual culture)
• Head, Matthew. "Musicology on Safari: Orientalism and the Spectre of Postcolonial Theory." Music Analysis 22.1-2 (2003): 211-230.
• Sax, William S. "The Hall of Mirrors: Orientalism, Anthropology, and the Other." American Anthropologist 100.2 (1998): 292-301.
• O'Hanlon, Rosalind, and David Washbrook. "After Orientalism: Culture, Criticism, and Politics in the Third World." Comparative Studies in Society and History 34 (1992): 141-167.
• Abu-Lughod, Lila. "Orientalism and Middle East Feminist Studies" (Review). Feminist Studies 27.1 (2001): 101-113.
Other important events to add to your calendar are the inaugural Postcolonial Perspectives lecture on 29 November, when Dr Yael Maurer from Tel Aviv University will present a paper entitled “Rage against the machine? Cyberspace narratives in Salman Rushdie’s Fury”; and LIVING BEYOND THEORY: Interdisciplinary perspectives on the postcolonial, a one-day postgraduate symposium to be held in York on 11 February 2011.
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