IH 201 From Postcolonial Theory to Decolonial Thinking                                      

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¨ Instructors: Drs. Ignacio López-Calvo and Nigel Hatton

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● Course Description

Study of a number of themes in contemporary critical thought and cultural studies. This course provides an interdisciplinary, panoramic view of contemporary theory and its potential for cultural analysis, with an emphasis on postcolonial and decolonial thinking. Several texts by major figures in the field, as well as less canonical names will be analyzed and discussed in class. The student will choose one or several of these writings as a point of departure for the critical analysis of one or several cultural artifacts. The class will be conducted in English.

● Required Course Materials

Introduction to the course.

►POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES:

The Location of Culture. Homi Bhabha. London and New York: Routledge, 2004 

ISBN10: 0-415-33639-2  ISBN13: 978-0-415-33639-0

Culture and Imperialism Edward Said  New York: Vintage Books, 1994 0-679-75054-1

The Question of Palestine Edward Said  Vintage, 1992 ISBN-10: 0679739882 ISBN-13:

978-0679739883

Can the Subaltern Speak. Gayatri Spivak

Provincializing Europe. Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference. Dipesh

Chakrabarty   Princeton UP, 2000.  ISBN 978-0-691-13001-9

Alternative Modernities.  Ed. Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar  Duke UP, 2001

ISBN-10: 0822327147  ISBN-13: 978-0822327141

►DECOLONIAL STUDIES:

The Wretched of the Earth and White Skin Black Masks Franz Fanon  Grove/Atlantic Inc

The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization. Walter

Mignolo. Univ of Michigan Press, 2003. 

The Darker Side of Western Modernity. Global Futures, Decolonial Options. Walter

Mignolo. Duke University Press Books, 2011. 

Twenty Theses on Politics. Enrique Dussel enriquedussel.com/txt/56.Twenty.pdf

The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-colonial Literatures, eds. Bill

Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin London and NY: Routledge, 2092  

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza Gloria Anzaldúa Aunt Lute Books, 2012

Methodology of the Oppressed Chela Sandoval

Aníbal Quijano’s “Coloniality and Modernity/Coloniality”, Ramón Grosfoguel’s

“Decolonizing post-colonial studies and paradigms of political economy: transmodernity, decolonial thinking, and global coloniality”, Nelson Maldonado-Torres’s “Enrique Dussel’s liberation thought in the decolonial turn”

►LITERATURE AND TESTIMONIALS

I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala, by Elizabeth Burgos-Debray and

Rigoberta Menchú  Verso, 2010.

The Lost Steps, by Alejo Carpentier