 Post-Modern Fiction
 Philosophy, Post-feminism, Post-Coloniality,
 Deconstruction and Rhizomatic Writing
 English 2190 T04 – CRN 25335
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 Prof. Fernando de Toro
 Academic Term: Winter 2016
 Office: Fletcher Argue Building Room 628
 e-mail: fernando.detoro@umanitoba.ca
 Telephone: 474-8141
 Day, Time, Location: MWF 14:30-15:20 – Tier 403
 Office Hours: MWF: 13:30-14:20
Class Notes: http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fdetoro/E2190
 I. Introduction
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 New forms to produce literature and cultural objects
emerged in Western culture towards the beginning of the
1960s, particularly in the United States of America and
Latin America. Culture experienced radical changes,
specifically cultural and social manifestations such as
theatre, architecture, photography, literature, sculpture,
politics, philosophy, music as well as the feminist, postfeminist and post-colonial practices.
 I. Introduction
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 Writing, in its inscriptural meaning, becomes rhizomatic,
de-centred, and palimpsestic: simulation and hyperreality
take over the whole of the artistic, cultural fields, and also,
I dare to say, the social field.
 This phenomenon has been labelled, since the early 1970s,
the post-modern condition.
 Both the theoretical and artistic corpus selected are
inscribed within Postmodernity and produced in diverse
cultures.
 I. Introduction
 The theoretical texts present many different problems and
issues since their discourses proceed form heterogeneous
fields of knowledge.
 The central objective of this course is to offer an overview
regarding when, why and how postmodern cultural
practices emerge as a new epistemic and theoretical
paradigms under a variety of labels, such as poststructuralism, post-modernism, post-colonialism,
deconstruction, feminism, post-feminism, etc.
 II.
Method of Evaluation
 Number of Assignments: 3
 Dates, length and value:
 1) February 8: An 800-word essay – 20%
 2) March 9:
An 1100-word essay – 40%
 3) April 13:
An 1100-word essay – 40%
 III. Required Readings
 Acker, Kathy. (1989). Don Quixote. New York: Grove
Press.
 Banville, John. (1981). Kepler. Great Britain. Minerva.
 Barnes, Julian. (1984). Flaubert’s Parrot. London:
Jonathan Cape.
 Bertens, Hans. (1986). “The Postmodern Weltanschauung
and its Relation to Modernism: An Introductory Survey”.
In A Postmodern Reader. Edited by Joseph Natoli and
Linda Hutcheon. New York: State University of New
York Press, pp. 25-70.
 III. Required Readings
 Borges, Jorge Luis. (1962). “ Tlôn, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”
and “Pierre Menard Author of Don Quixote”. In Ficciones.
Edited and with and Introduction by Anthony Kerrigan, by
New York: Grove Press, pp. 17-35 and 45-55 respectively.
 Carter, Angela. (1979). “The Bloody Chamber”. In The
Bloody Chamber. New York: Harper & Row, pp. 7-41.
 Coetzee, J.M. (1986). Foe. Toronto: Stoddart.
 Huyssen, Andreas. (1984). “Mapping the Postmodern”. In
A Postmodern Reader. Edited by Joseph Natoli and Linda
Hutcheon. New York: State University of New York Press,
pp. 105-156.
 III. Required Readings
 Karl, Frederick R. (1988). “Getting to Be Modern”. In
Modern and Modernism: The Sovereignty of the Artist
1885-1925. New York: Atheneum, pp. 3-39.
 Karl, Frederick R. (1988). “Modern and Post-Modern”. In
Modern and Modernism: The Sovereignty of the Artist
1885-1925. New York: Atheneum, pp. 401-426.
 Malouf, David. (1999). An Imaginary Life. London:
Vintage Books.
 van Herk, Aritha. (1990). Places far from Ellesmere. Red
River, Alberta: Red Deer College Press.
 Winterson, Jeanette. (1989). The Passion. New York:
Vintage Books.
 IV.
Reference Readings Theory
 Baudrillard, Jean. (1988). Simulations. Translated by Paul
Foss, Paul Patton and Philip Beitchman. New York:
Semiotex(e).
 Bhabha, Homi. (1990). "Introduction. Location of Culture".
In The Location of Culture. London: Routledge, pp. 1-18.
 Butler, Judith. (1990). “Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire”. In
Gender Trouble. Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.
New York: Routledge, pp. 1-34.
 Chambers, Iain. (1994). “The Broken World: Whose
Centre, Whose Periphery?” In Migrancy, Culture, Identity.
London and New York: Routledge, pp. 67-91.
 IV.
Reference Readings Theory
 Chambers, Iain. (1994). “An Impossible Homecoming” In
Migrancy, Culture, Identity. London and New York:
Routledge, pp. 1-8.
 De Toro, Fernando. (1999). “Borges/Derrida and Writing”.
In Jorge Luis Borges: Thought and Knowledge in the XXth
Century. Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert Verlag, pp. 115128.
 Deleuze, Gilles and Félix Guattari. (1987). "Rhizome". In
A Thousand Plateaus. Translation and Foreword by Brian
Massumi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp.
3-25.
 IV.
Reference Readings Theory
 Derrida, Jacques. (1981). "Platos's Pharmacy". In
Dissemination. Translated, with and Introduction and
additional notes, by Barbara Johnson. Chicago: The
University of Chicago Press, pp. 65-119.
 Derrida, Jacques. (1974). “Part I: Writing before the
Letter”. In Of Grammatology. Translated by Gayatri
Spivak. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press,
pp. 6-73.
 Hall, Stuart. (1996). "Who Needs "Identity"?" In Questions
of Cultural Identity. Stuart Hall and Paul Du Gay, Editors.
London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: SAGE Publications,
pp. 1-18.
 IV.
Reference Readings Theory
 Hutcheon, Linda. (1989). The Politics of Postmodernism.
London and New York: Routledge.
 Jencks, Charles. (1989). What is Post-Modernism? Third
Edition. New York: St. Martin's Press.
 Lyotard, Jean-François. (1984). The Postmodern
Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Translation from the
French by Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi.
Foreword by Fredric Jameson. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press.
 Rutherford, Jonathan. (1990). “A Place Called Home:
Identity and the Cultural Politics of Difference”. In
Identity, Community, Cultur, Difference. London:
Lawrence and Wishart, pp. 9-27.
 IV.
Reference Readings Theory
 Weedon, Chris. (1987). Feminist Practice and
Poststructuralist Theory. Cambridge, Massachusetts and
Oxford, United Kingdom: Blackwell.
 Weeks, Jeffrey. (1990). “The Value of Difference”. In
Identity, Community, Cultur, Difference. London:
Lawrence and Wishart, pp. 88-99.
 Worton, Michael and Judith Still. “Introduction”. (1990) In
Intertextuality: theories and practices. Manchester and
New York: Manchester University Press, pp. 1-44.
 V: Reading Schedule
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January 6:
An Introduction to Modernity
January 8:
An Introduction to Modernity
January 11:
An Introduction to Modernity
January 13:
Frederick Karl: “Getting to Be Modern”
January 15:
Hans Bertnes: “The Postmodern
Weltanschauung”
 January 18:
Andreas Huyssen: “Mapping the PostModern
 January 20:
An Introduction to Post-Modernity
 January 22:
An Introduction to Post-Modernity
 V: Reading Schedule
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January 25:
An Introduction to Post-Modernity
January 27:
Frederick Karl: “Modern and Postmodern”
January 29:
Frederick Karl: “Modern and Postmodern”
February 1:
Frederick Karl: “Modern and Postmodern”
February 3:
Jorge Luis Borges: Ficciones: “Tlön,
Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” and “Pierre Menard Author of Don
Quixote”
 February 5:
Jorge Luis Borges: Ficciones. “Tlön,
Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” and “Pierre Menard Author of Don
Quixote”
 V: Reading Schedule
 February 8:
Jorge Luis Borges: Ficciones. “Tlön,
Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” and “Pierre Menard Author of Don
Quixote”
 February 8:
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FIRST PAPER
February 10: Kathy Acker: Don Quixote
February 12: Kathy Acker: Don Quixote
February 15-19:
Mid-Term Break
February 22: Julian Barnes: Flauberts's Parrot
February 24: Julian Barnes: Flauberts's Parrot
 V: Reading Schedule
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February 29:
March 2:
March4:
March 7:
March 9:
March 9:
March 11:
March 14:
March 16:
March 18:
deadline
Julian Barnes: Flauberts's Parrot
John Banville: Kepler
John Banville: Kepler
John Banville: Kepler
David Malouf: An Imaginary Life
SECOND PAPER
David Malouf: An Imaginary Life
David Malouf: An Imaginary Life
Aritha van Herk: Places far from Ellesmere
Voluntary Withdrawal (VW)
 V: Reading Schedule
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March 18:
March 21:
March 23:
March 25:
March 25:
March 28:
March 30:
April 1:
April 4:
April 6:
April 8:
Aritha van Herk: Places far from Ellesmere
Aritha van Herk: Places far from Ellesmere
Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber.
Winterson: The Passion
Good Friday
Winterson: The Passion
Winterson: The Passion
Winterson: The Passion
Coetzee: Foe
Coetzee: Foe
Coetzee: Foe
 V: Reading Schedule
 April 13:
THIRD PAPER
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