1.  Post-Modern Fiction  Philosophy, Post-feminism, Post-Coloniality,  Deconstruction and Rhizomatic Writing  English 2190 T04 – CRN 25335   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

2.  I. Introduction   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, post- feminist and post-colonial practices.

3.  I. Introduction   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.

4.  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 post- structuralism, post-modernism, post-colonialism, deconstruction, feminism, post-feminism, etc.

5.  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%

6.  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.

7.  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.

8.  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.

9.  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.

10.  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. 115- 128.  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.

11.  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.

12.  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.

13.  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.

14.  V: Reading Schedule  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 Post- Modern  January 20:An Introduction to Post-Modernity  January 22: An Introduction to Post-Modernity

15.  V: Reading Schedule  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”

16.  V: Reading Schedule  February 8:Jorge Luis Borges: Ficciones. “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” and “Pierre Menard Author of Don Quixote”  February 8: FIRST PAPER  February 10: Kathy Acker: Don Quixote  February 12: Kathy Acker: Don Quixote  February 15-19: Mid-Term Break  February 22: JulianBarnes: Flauberts's Parrot  February 24: JulianBarnes: Flauberts's Parrot  February 26: JulianBarnes: Flauberts's Parrot

17.  V: Reading Schedule  February 29: JulianBarnes: Flauberts's Parrot  March 2: John Banville: Kepler  March4: John Banville: Kepler  March 7: John Banville: Kepler  March 9: David Malouf: An Imaginary Life  March 9: SECOND PAPER  March 11:David Malouf: An Imaginary Life  March 14: David Malouf: An Imaginary Life  March 16: Aritha van Herk: Places far from Ellesmere  March 18: Voluntary Withdrawal (VW) deadline

18.  V: Reading Schedule  March 18: Aritha van Herk: Places far from Ellesmere  March 21: Aritha van Herk: Places far from Ellesmere  March 23:Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber.  March 25:Winterson: The Passion  March 25:Good Friday  March 28:Winterson: The Passion  March 30:Winterson: The Passion  April 1: Winterson: The Passion  April 4: Coetzee: Foe  April 6: Coetzee: Foe  April 8: Coetzee: Foe

19.  V: Reading Schedule  April 13: THIRD PAPER

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