Illinois State University
Department of History
IDS 203: Nations and Narration
Tuesday, 6:00-8:50 p.m.
Spring 2000
Schroeder 314
IV. Required Texts
Course Packet, Nations and Narrations (Wright’s Course Packet).
V. Suggested Readings
Abu El-Haj, Nadia. Excavating the Land, Creating the Homeland: Archaeology,
the State and the Making of History in Modern Jewish Nationalism (Ph. D.
dissertation, Duke University, 1995).
Badran, Margot. "Competing Agenda: Feminists, Islam and the State in
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Egypt." Women, Islam and the State, ed. D.
Kandiyoti. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990. Pp. 201-236.
Badran, Margot, and Miriam Cooke. Opening the Gates: A Century of Arab
Feminist Writing. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.
Baron, Beth. "The Construction of National Honour in Egypt." Gender and
History. 5:2 (Summer 1993), 244-255.
Bayomi, Khaled. "Nahdah visions and political realities in the Arab East - the
inevitable war!" (http://www.hf-fak.uib.no/smi/paj/Bayomi.html).
Chatterjee, Partha. The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial
Histories. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Hobsbawn, E. J. Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Ibrahim, Saad Eddin. "Management and mismanagement of diversity: The case of
ethnic conflict and nation-building in the Arab World" (http://www.hffak.uib.no/smi/paj/Ibrahim.html)
Jackson, Leonard. The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic
Act. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1981.
Kedourie, Elie. Nationalism. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.
Kopola, Nelli. "Definitions of Algerian Women: Citizenship, Participation and
Exclusion" (http://www.hf-fak.uib.no/smi/paj/Kopola.html).
LaBianca, Øystein. "Indigenous hardiness structures and state formation in
Jordan. Towards a history of Jordan's resident Arab population" (http://www.hffak.uib.no/smi/paj/LaBianca.htm)
Layoun , Mary. "Telling Spaces: Palestinian Women and the Engendering of
National Narratives." In Nationalities and Sexualities, ed. Andrew Parker and et.
al. New York: Routledge, 1992. Pp. 407-423.
Megill, Allan, "Recounting the Past: Description, Explanation, and Narrative in
Historiography." The American Historical Review. 94:3 (1989). 627-653.
Prakash, Gyan, "Writing Post-Orientalist Histories of the Third World: Indian
Historiography is Good to Think." In Colonialism and Culture. Edited by
Nicholas B. Dirks. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1995. 353-388.
Radhakrishnan, R. "Nationalism, Gender, and Narratives of Identity. In
Nationalisms and Sexualities. Edited by A. Parker, M. Russo, D. Sommer, and P.
Yaeger. New York: Routledge, 1992.
Renan, Ernest. "What is a Nation?" Trans. by Martin Thom. In Nation and
Narration. Edited by Homi K. Bhabha. London; New York: Routledge, 1990. 822.
Rosander, Eva. "Female Linkage in Morocco and Senegal" (http://www.hffak.uib.no/smi/paj/Rosander.html).
Taj al-Saltana, Crowing Anguish: Memoirs of a Persian Princess from the Harem
to Modernity, trans. by Anna Vanzan and Amin Neshati (Washington, DC: Mage
Publishers, 1993).
White, Hayden. "The Historical text as Literary Artifact." In Tropics of
Discourse: Essays in Cultural Critcism. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1985. 81-100.
Winichahul, Thongchai. Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994.
VI. Preliminary Reading and Discussion Schedule
All readings are to be completed before class.
Part I: Definition
Jan. 18 Introduction to the Course
Jan. 25 Stuart Hall, "The Question of Cultural Identity," in
Modernity: An Introduction to Modern Societies, ed. Stuart Hall
and et. al. (Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers, 1996), 595-634.
Ernest Renan, "What is a Nation," in Nation and Narration,
ed. Homi Bhabha (New York: Routledge, 1990), 8-22.
Feb. 1 Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on
the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 1991), 146.
Partha Chatterjee, "Whose Imagined Community," in The
Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993), 3-13.
Prasenjit Duara, "Historicizing National Identity, or Who
Imagines What and When," in Becoming National: A Reader, ed.
by Geoff Eley and Ronald Suny (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1996), 150-177.
II. Narration
Feb. 8 Hayden White, "Historicism, History, and the Figurative
Imagination," in Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978), 101-120.
Eric Hobsbawm, "The Nation as Novelty: From Revolution
to Liberalism," in Nations and Nationalism Since 1780:
Programme, Myth and Reality (Cambridge: The Press Syndicate of
the University of Cambridge, 1990), 14-45.
Feb. 15
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, "Contested Memories:
Narrative Structures and Allegorical Meaning of Iran's Pre-Islamic
History," Iranian Studies 29:1-2 (1996), 149-175.
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, "Refashioning of Iran:
Language and Culture During the Constitutional Revolution,"
Iranian Studies 23: 1-4 (1990), 77-101.
III. Transition
Feb. 22
Benedict Anderson, "Old Languages, New Models,"
in Imagined Communities, 67-82.
L. Carl Brown, "The Classical Eastern Question, 17741923," in International Politics and the Middle East: Old Rules,
Dangerous Games (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984),
21-63.
IV. Resignification
Feb. 29
Bernard Lewis, "Patriotism and Nationalism," in
The Shaping of Modern Middle East (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1994), 71-98.
Ami Ayalon, "Religious Communities and Nation-States,"
in Language and Change in the Arab Middle East: The Evolution
of Modern Arabic Political Discourse (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1987), 16-28.
Said Bensaid, "Al-Watan and Al-Umma in Contemporary
Arab Use," in The Foundations of the Arab State, ed. Ghassan
Salamé (New York: Croom Helm, 1987), 149-174.
Abdullah al-Alayili, "What is Arab Nationalism," in Arab
Nationalism: An Anthology (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1976), 120-127 [176-180].
Edmond Rabbath, "The Common Origin of the Arabs," in Arab
Nationalism: An Anthology, ed. Sylvia Haim (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1962), 78-80.
Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi, "The Excellence of the Arabs," in
Arab Nationalism: An Anthology, ed. Sylvia Haim (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1962), 78-80.
Ziya Gökalp, "The Programme of Turkism: What is Turkism?," in
Turkish Nationalism and Western Civilization, 284-313.
V. Body-Politic
Mar. 7 Cynthia Encole, "Nationalism and Masculinity," in
Bananas, Beaches, and Bases (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1989), 42-64.
Anne McClintock, "No Longer in a Future Heaven:
Nationalism, Gender and Race," in Imperial Leather: Race, Gender
and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (New York: Routledge,
1995), 353-368.
Beth Baron, "Mothers, Morality, and Nationalism," in The
Origins of Arab Nationalism, 271-288.
Mar. 21
Afsaneh Najmabadi, "Zanha-yi Millat: Women or
Wives of the Nation" Iranian Studies 26: 1-2 (1993), 51-71.
Mohamad Tavakoli, "Matriotic Nationalism" in Vernacular
Modernity.
VI. Turkism
Mar. 28
N. Berkes, "Historical Background of Turkish
Secularism," in Islam and the West, ed. Richard Frye (The Hague:
Mouton & Co, 1956), 41-68.
Eric Hobsbawm, "Introduction: Inventing Traditions," in Invention
of Tradition, eds. Eric Hobsbawm and Terrace Ranger
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), 1-14.
Selim Deringil, "The Invention of Tradition as Public
Image in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1808-1908," Comparative
Study of Society and History (1993), 3-29.
Apr. 4 Ayse Kadioglu, "The Paradox of Turkish Nationalism and
the Construction of Official Identity," Middle Eastern Studies
(1996), 177-193.
Mesut Yegen, "The Turkish State and the Exclusion of
Kurdish Identity," Middle Eastern Studies (1996), 216-229.
VI. Arabism
Apr. 11
Albert Hourani, "Arab Nationalism," in Arab
Thought in the Liberal Age, 1798-1939 (Cambridge: The Press
Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, 1962), 260-323.
Ilya Harik, "The Origins of the Arab State System," in The
Foundations of the Arab State, ed. Ghassan Salamé (New York:
Croom Helm, 1987), 19-46.
Martin Kramer, "Arab Nationalism: Mistaken Identity," Daedalus
122:3 (Summer 1994), 171-206.
VII. Conference
Apr. 18
Conference Preperation
Apr. 25
Conference Rehersal
Thursday, April 27, 1999
Rhetoric and the Historical Imagination, 12th annual
conference
VIII. Retrospective
May 2 Dipesh Chakrabarty, "Postcoloniality and the Artifice of
History: Who Speaks for ‘Indian’ Pasts?," Representations 37
(Winter 1992), 1-26.