File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_2000/postcolonial.0010, message 43


Subject: RE: european/Indigenous tensions in lit
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 21:24:54 GMT


You are right; it is four books, but the English edition by Penguin was in 
three volumes, hence my mischaracterization, as Trilogy. Mea culpa, 
apologies.

Salil


>From: Maryanne Felter <FelterMA-AT-cayuga-cc.edu>
>Reply-To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>To: "'postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu'" 
><postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
>Subject: RE: european/Indigenous tensions in lit
>Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 13:55:20 -0400
>
>
>Yes, it was a tetralogy--teh Buru Quartet.  In the meantime, I teach such 
>an
>honors course on my campus.  Over the years, I have played around with
>different case studies.  But here's a list of books I have used in the 
>past.
>(by the way, anthologies that have exactly what I was looking for are rare)
>
>Conrad. Heart of Darkness.
>Achebe. Things Fall Apart
>Soyinke. Death and the King's Horseman
>Ngugi wa Thiong'o. either A Grain of Wheat, Devil on teh Cross,or  The 
>River
>Between
>Ngugi and Micere Githae Mugo. The Trial of Dedan Kimathi
>Isak Dinesin. OUt of Africa
>Forster. A Passage to India
>Anand. Untouchable
>Rushdie. Midnight's Children
>Tharoor. The Great Indian Novel
>Multatuli. Max Havelaar
>Pramoedya. This Earth of Mankind
>Duong Thu Huong. Paradise of the Blind
>Carpentier. The Kingdom of this World
>Alvarez. In the Time of the Butterflies
>Cesaire. A Tempest
>Friel. Translations
>Emecheta. The Rape of Shavi
>Lopez. Tribaliks
>
>I team teach this 6 credit course with a colleague in history--and the
>history readings are a whole other thing--write me if you want to talk more
>about it. By the way, we pick and choose 4-5 case studies per
>semester--don't let me leave you thinking we do all of this--
>Maryanne Felter
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Ismail Talib [SMTP:i_talib-AT-email.com]
> > Sent:	Saturday, October 07, 2000 6:17 AM
> > To:	postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu;
> > postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> > Subject:	Re: european/Indigenous tensions in lit
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > Wasn't it Pramudya's tetralogy rather than trilogy?  Anyway, wouldn't it
> > be
> > best to also include that great classic of Dutch literature, Multatuli's
> > _Max Havelaar_, if Dr Cary doesn't mind having more than one fictional
> > work
> > on Dutch colonial rule of Indonesia?
> >
> > Ismail
> >
> > ------Original Message------
> > From: Salil Tripathi <salil61-AT-hotmail.com>
> > To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> > Sent: October 6, 2000 8:45:18 AM GMT
> > Subject: Re: european/Indigenous tensions in lit
> >
> >
> > Pramoedya Ananta Toer's Trilogy, about the Indonesian experience of 
>Dutch
> > colonialism, would make a good candidate.
> >
> > Salil
> >
> >
> > >From: Norman Cary <norman.cary-AT-wright.edu>
> > >Reply-To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> > >To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu, Norm
> > <norman.cary-AT-wright.edu>
> > >Subject: european/Indigenous tensions in lit
> > >Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 12:49:04 -0400
> > >
> > >I am planning this winter to teach an undergraduate honors course which
> > >will explore presentations in modern fiction of cultural and economic
> > >tensions between European colonists or settlers and local (indigenous?)
> > >peoples throughout the world (e.g., North America, Latin America,
> > >Africa, Australia, NZ, Indonesia).  I would welcome resources regarding
> > >relevant theory, and titles of anthologies (if there are any) which are
> > >more than regional in scope.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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