A Hopeful Reading Schedule
Done pre-Nov 16, 2009
Bless Me Ultima (1972) – Rudolfo Anaya (US, Mexico)
Obasan (1981) – Joy Kogawa
Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts (1978) – Maxine Hong Kingston
(Chinese US, China)
China Boy (1991) – Gus Lee
T-19 weeks (week of Nov 16)
Infinite Jest (1996) – David Foster Wallace (US, Canada, white)
Warhol, Robyn R., and Diane Price Herndl. Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1991.
Selections:
“Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of
Authorship” by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
“Dancing Through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory,
Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism” by Annette Kolodny
“Recycling: Race, Gender, and the Practice of Theory” by Deborah E.
McDowell
“The ‘Wild Zone’ Thesis as Gloss in Chicana Literary Study” by Cordelia
Chávez Candelaria
“The Madwoman and Her Languages: Why I Don’t Do Feminist Literary
Theory” by Nina Baym
“Feminist Politics: What’s Home Got to Do with It?” by Biddy Martin and
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
“Upping the Anti (sic) in Feminist Theory” by Teresa de Lauretis
“The Laugh of the Medusa” by Hélene Cixous
“This Sex Which Is Not One” from This Sex Which Is Not One by Luce Irigaray
“Writing the Body: Toward an Understanding of l’Ecriture feminine” by Ann
Rosalind Jones
“Introduction” from Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial
Desire by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
“Introduction: On the Politics of Literature” by Judith Fetterley
“Women’s Time” by Julia Kristeva
“Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism” by Gayatri Chakravorty
Spivak
Lewis, Reina, and Sara Mills. Feminist Postcolonial Theory: A Reader. New York:
Routledge, 2003.
Selections:
“Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses” by
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
“Diaspora, Border, and Transnational Identities” by Avtar Brah
“Where Have All the Natives Gone” by Rey Chow

“'Imperial Leather: Race, Cross-Dressing and the Cult of Domesticity'” by
Anne McClintock
McCann, Carole Ruth, and Seung-Kyung Kim. Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global
Perspectives. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Selections:
“The Preferential Symbol for Islamic Identity: Women in Muslim Personal
Laws” by Marie-Aimée Helie-Lucas
“Funny Boys and Girls: Notes on a Queer South Asian Planet” by Gayatri
Gopinath
“Going Home: Enacting Justice in Queer Asian America” by Karin Aguilar-San
Juan
“The Feminist Standpoint: Toward a Specifically Feminist Historical
Materialism” by Nancy C. M. Hartsock
“The Politics of Black Feminist Thought” by Patricia Hill Collins
“Separating Lesbian Theory from Feminist Theory” by Cheshire Calhoun
“Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism” by Mazine Baca Zinn and
Bonnie Thornton Dill
“Multiple Mediations: Feminist Scholarship in the Age of Multinational
Reception” by Lata Mani
“Deconstructing Equality-Versus-Difference: Or, the Uses of Poststructuralist
Theory for Feminism” by Joan W. Scott
T-18 weeks
“A Take of Two Feminsms: Power and Victimization in Contemporary
Feminist Debate” by Carolyn Sorisio
In a Free State (1973) - V.S. Naipaul
A Piece of Mine (1984) – J. California Cooper (US, black)
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991) – Sandra Cisneros (US, Latina)
Interpreter of Maladies (1999)– Jhumpa Lahiri (US Indian)
Kaplan, Caren, Norma Alarcón, and Minoo Moallem. Between Woman and Nation:
Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the State. Durham, NC: Duke University
Press, 1999.
Selections:
“Introduction: Between Women and Nation” by Norma Alarcón, Caren
Kaplan, and Minoo Moallem
“Bloody Metaphors and Other Allegories of the Ordinary” by Elspeth Probyn
“Relational Positionalities of Nationalisms, Racisms, and Feminisms” by Daiva
K. Stasiulis
“Fabricating Masculinity: Gender, Race, and Nation in a Transnational Frame” by Dorinne Kondo
“Transnationalism, Feminism, and Fundamentalism” by Minoo Moallem
Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. San Francisco: Aunt Lute books, 1987.

Grewal, Inderpal, and Caren Kaplan. “Introduction.” Scattered Hegemonies:
Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 1994.
Brown, Wendy. States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity. Princeton, N.J.:
Princeton University Press, 1995.
Gubar, Susan. "What Ails Feminist Criticism?" Critical Inquiry. 24. 4 (1998): 878-902.
Berlant, Lauren Gail. “The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Notes on Diva
Citizenship.” The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and
Citizenship. Series Q. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997.
T-17 weeks
Bornstein, Kate, and Kate Bornstein. Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of
Us. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality Vol. 1. New York: Vintage Books, 1984.
Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.
Thinking gender. New York: Routledge, 1990.
Butler, Judith P. Undoing Gender. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Selections:
“Introduction: Acting in Concert” (Chapter 1)
“Gender Regulations” (Chapter 2)
“Doing Justice to Someone: Sex Reassignment and Allegories of
Transsexuality” (Chapter 3)
“Undiagnosing Gender” (Chapter 4)
“The End of Sexual Difference?” (Chapter 9)
“The Question of Social Transformation” (Chapter 10)
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Epistemology of the Closet. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1990.
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Tendencies. “Introduction.” Series Q. Durham: Duke University
Press, 1993.
Wittig, Monique. The Straight Mind and Other Essays. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992.
T-16 weeks
Samuels, E. (2002, Fall). Critical divides: Judith Butler’s body theory and the question of disability. In K. Q. Hall (Ed.), Feminist Disability Studies [Special issue]. NWSA Journal,
14(3), 58-76.
Davis, Lennard J. The Disability Studies Reader. New York: Routledge, 1997.
Selections:
“Constructing Normalcy: The Bell Curve, the Novel, and the Invention of the
Disabled Body in the Nineteenth Century” by Lennard Davis
“Toward a Feminist Theory of Disability” by Susan Wendell
“Feminist Theory, the Body, and the Disabled Figure” by Rosemarie Garland
Thomson
Out on Main Street and Other Stories (1993) – Shani Mootoo (South Asian Canadian)
Close Range: Wyoming Stories (1999) – Annie Proulx (white US)

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fight in Heaven (1993) – Sherman Alexie (Native American,
US)
Selections from The Post-Colonial Studies Reader (1995) edited by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth
Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin
“Can the Subaltern Speak” by Gayayti Chakravorty Spivak
“Signs Taken for Wonders” by Homi K. Bhabha
“Problems in Current Theories of Colonial Discourse” by Benita Parry
“The Scramble for Post-colonialism” by Stephen Slemon
“The Postcolonial and the Postmodern” by Kwame Anthony Appiah
“Postmodernism or Post-colonialism Today” by Simon During
Home and Harem : Nation, Gender, Empire, and the Cultures of Travel (1996) by Inderpal
Grewal
T-15 weeks (week of Dec 14)
Catch up, try to get ahead
T-14 weeks (weeks of Dec 21)
Catch up, try to get ahead
T-13 weeks
Beginning Postcolonialism (2000) by John McLeod
Selections from Colonial and Postcolonial Fiction: An Anthology (1999) edited by Robert
L. Ross
“A Matter of Taste” (1967) by Alex La Guma (South Africa)
“The Gold Watch” (1958) by Mulk Raj Anand (India)
“Do You Love Me?” (1979) by Peter Carey (Australia)
“The Perfume Sea” (1970) by Margaret Laurence (Canada, West Africa)
“A Horse and Two Goats” (1970) by RK Narayan (India)
“The Hills” (1987) by Patricia Grace (New Zealand)
Selections from The Arnold Anthology of Post-Colonial Literatures in English (1996) edited by John Thieme
“Incidents at the Shrine” (1987) by Ben Okri (Nigeria)
“The Whale” (1970) and “This Life is Weary” (1989) by Witi Ihimaera (New
Zealand)
“A Resurrection” (1974) and “Towards a New Oceana” (1976) by Albert
Wendt (Samoa, South Pacific)
“Five Fingers” (1974) by Lee Kok Liang (Malaysia)
T-12 weeks
Connell, R. W. Masculinities. St. Leonards, Vic: Allen & Unwin, 1995.
“Introduction”
“The Science of Masculinity” (Chapter 1)
“Men’s Bodies” (Chapter 2)
“The Social Organization of Masculinity” (Chapter 3)

“The History of Masculinity” (Chapter 9)
“Masculinity Politics” (Chapter 10)
Gardiner, Judith Kegan. Masculinity Studies & Feminist Theory: New Directions. New
York: Columbia University Press, 2002.
“Introduction” by Judith Kegan Gardiner
“Unmaking: Men and Masculinity in Feminist Theory” by Robyn Wiegman
“The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Men, Women, and Masculinity” by Judith
Halberstam
Halberstam, Judith. Posthuman Bodies. Bloomington [u.a.]: Indiana Univ. Press, 1995.
“Introduction: Posthuman Bodies” by Judith Halberstam and Ira Livingston
“The End of the World of White Men” by Kathy Acker
“Class and Its Close Relations: Identities among Women, Servants, and
Machines” by Alexandra Chasin
“Soft Fictions and Intimate Documents: Can Feminism Be Posthuman?” by
Paula Rabinowitz
“Reproducing the Posthuman Body: Ectogenetic Fetus, Surrogate Mother,
Pregnant Man” by Susan M. Squier
“The Seductive Power of Science in the Making of Deviant Subjectivity” by
Jennifer Terry
Stryker, Susan, and Stephen Whittle. The Transgender Studies Reader. New York:
Routledge, 2006.
Selections:
“(De)Subjugated Knowledges: An Introduction to Transgender Studies” by
Susan Stryker
“Toward a Theory of Gender” by Suzanne J. Kessler and Wendy McKenna
“Where Did We Go Wrong?: Feminism and Trans Theory—Two Teams on the
Same Side?” by Stephen Whittle
“Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come” by Leslie
Feinberg
“The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto” by Sandy Stone
“My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix:
Performing Transgender Rage” by Susan Stryker
“Judith Butler: Queer Feminism, Transgender, and the Transubstantiation of
Sex” by Jay Prosser
“Mutilating Gender” by Dean Spade
“Of Catamites and Kings: Reflections on Butch, Gender, and Boundaries” by
Gayle Rubin
“Queering the Binaries: Transsituated Identities, Bodies, and Sexualities” by
Jason Cromwell
“Transgender Theory and Embodiment: The Risk of Racial Marginalization” by Katrina Roen
“Transgendering the Politics of Recognition” by Richard Juang
T-11 weeks
Death and the King’s Horseman (1979) – Wole Soyinka (Nigerian)

Anowa (1970) - Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana)
You Strike the Woman, You Strike the Rock (1986) – Phyllis Klotz et. al. (South Africa)
Tell It To Women: An Epic Drama (1995) – Tess Onwueme (Nigeria)
T-10 weeks (week of Jan 18)
Remembrance (1977) – Derek Walcott (Caribbean)
Dream on Monkey Mountain (1967) – Derek Walcott (Caribbean)
Bellywoman Bangarang (1978) – Sistren Theatre Collective (Jamaica)
T-9 weeks
The Rez Sisters (1986) - Tomson Highway (Canada, Cree)
No Sugar (1985) – Jack Davis (Australia)
Dog Lady (1988) – Milcha Sanchez-Scott (US, Latin America)
Heroes and Saints (1992) – Cherríe Moraga (US, Chicano/a)
Alcoff, Linda. Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self. Studies in feminist philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. hooks, bell. Feminist Theory from Margin to Center. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1984.
“Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory” (Chapter 1)
“Feminism: A Movement to End Sexist Oppression” (Chapter 2)
“The Significance of Feminist Movement” (Chapter 3)
“Sisterhood: Political Solidarity Among Women” (Chapter 4)
“Men: Comrades in Struggle” (Chapter 5)
“Feminist Revolution: Development Through Struggle” (Chapter 12)
Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing
Solidarity. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003.
T-8 weeks
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide (1976) – Ntozake Shange
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1985) – August Wilson (US, black)
Angels in America (1990) – Tony Kushner (US, white)
Haraway, Donna Jeanne. The Haraway Reader. New York: Routledge, 2003.
“A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the
1980s” (Chapter 1)
“Ecce Homo, Ain’t (Ar’n’t) I a Woman, and Inappropriate/d Others: The
Human in a Post-Humanist Landscape” (Chapter 2)
“The Promises of Monsters: A Regenerative Politics for Inappropriate/d
Others” (Chapter 3)
“Morphing in the Order: Flexible Strategies, Feminist Science Studies, and
Primate Revisions” (Chapter 6)
“Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium” (Chapter 7)
“Race: Universal Donors in a Vampire Culture. It’s All in the Family: Biological
Kinship Categories in the Twentieth-Century United States” (Chapter 8)
“Cyborgs to Companion Species: Reconfiguring Kinship in Technoscience”
(Chapter 9)

“Cyborgs, Coyotes, and Dogs: A Kinship of Feminist Figurations” and “There
Are Always more Things Going on Than You Thought! Methodologies as
Thinking Technologies: An interview with Donna Haraway” (Chapter 10)
Alaimo, Stacy, and Susan J. Hekman. Material Feminisms. Bloomington, IN: Indiana
University Press, 2008.
Selections:
“Constructing the Ballast: An Ontology for Feminism” by Susan Hekman
“Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter
Comes to Matter” by Karen Barad
“Viscous Porosity: Witnessing Katrina” by Nancy Tuana
“Trans-Corporeal Feminisms and the Ethical Space of Nature” by Stacy
Alaimo
T-7 weeks (week of February 8)
Your Native Land, Your Life: Poems (1986) – Adrienne Rich (US, white)
Martin and Meditations on the South Valley (1987) – Jimmy Santiago Baca (US, Mexico,
Apache)
Beneath My Heart (1990) – Janice Gould (Native American US)
Selections from Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems (1993) – Yusef Komunyakaa
(US, black)
Hoops (2006) – Major Jackson (black US)
The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English (2001) by Jahan Ramazani
Selections from The Heinemann book of Caribbean Poetry (1997)
Omeros (1990) – Dereck Walcott (US, St. Lucia)
T-6 weeks
Selections from The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry Fifth Edition (2007)
Selections from The Collected Poems of AK Ramanujan (1976) – AK Ramanujan (India)
The Humble Administrator's Garden (1985) – Vikram Seth (India)
T-5 weeks
A Grain of Wheat (1967) - Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Kenya)
Things Fall Apart (1958) – Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)
The Joys of Motherhood (1979) – Buchi Emecheta (Nigeria)
July’s People (1981) – Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)
Foe (1986) – JM Coetzee (South Africa)
Paradise (1994) - Abdulrazak Gurnah (Zanzibar)
T-4 weeks
Midnight’s Children (1980) – Salman Rushdie (India, Pakistan)
Clear Light of Day (1980)– Anita Desai (India)
The God of Small Things (1997) – Arundhati Roy (India)
Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) – Jean Rhys (Antigua, Jamaica, UK)
Annie John (1985) – Jamaica Kincaid (US, Antigua)

T-3 weeks (week of March 8)
No Telephone to Heaven (1987) – Michelle Cliff (Jamaica)
Cracking India (1991) – Bapsi Sidhwa (India, Pakistan)
Beloved (1987) – Toni Morrison (US, black)
Tropic of Orange (1997) – Karen Tei Yamashita (US, Mexico, Japanese American)
The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) – Junot Diaz (US, DR)
Moraga, Cherri ́e, and Gloria Anzaldúa. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical
Women of Color. New York: Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, 1983.
T-2 weeks
Catch up
T-1 week
Catch up
March 29 – Exams are sometime in April