Spivak
- Reading 19th cen. British literature with Imperialism in mind
- List of Texts:
- Jane Eyre-Wide Sargasso Sea-Frankenstein: read from context of imperialism
- Caliban vs. Ariel
- Mahasweta Devi: Pterodactyl
- Baudelaire: Le cygne
- Kipling: William the Conquerer
- East India Company directors discussion
- Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Roxana
- Coetzee: Foe
- Colonialism vs. neo-colonialism vs. post-colonialism
Shih
- Utopic vs. dystopic globalization
- Utopic: freedom, subjectivity, flexibility, hybridity, multiplicity
- Dystopic: disparity, neo-colonisation, exploitation, “lowest cultural denominator” (American pop culture) = Americanization
- Global: explicit and implicit universal
- Local: particular embodiment of difference and otherness
- The “Taiwan question”
- Taiwan marginalized in post-colonial discussions because it was colonized by Asian instead of Western powers
- Perspectives
- Liao Pinghui: How to not talk about Taiwan in terms of postcoloniality, postmodernity, and globalization
- Ko Yufen: Consumption and globalization, Hello Kitty as product of ex-colonizer
- Liou Liangya: Queer representation in Taiwan fiction that opens up conflicting space between Western and Taiwanese queerness
- Yue Mingbao: Diasporic longing for national community
- Kelly Kuo: Critique of multiculturalism-very true (affirmative action?)
- What would Shih have to say about Taiwan in 2014? Especially since it is probably more culturally influential now than it was in 2003.
Krishnaswamy
- Postcolonialism simply response to the West?
- Death of cmlit? What does this mean?
- Krishnaswamy's solution: World literary knowledges
- “Radically re-vision question of what counts as theory in the first place”
- Anti and post colonialism only dented Eurocentric practices
- “Knowledges”: indicates local or indigenous epistemologies that have been marginalized by Western high theory
- Proposition: regional, subaltern, popular traditions studied alongside canonic and counter-canonic traditions
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