Department of Comparative Literature

Course Description	Fall 1999 Tues. 3:30-6:10, Reg. #114778 COL 715 B REG. #207543 Shaun Irlam, Clemens 643 Office Hours: Tues. & Thurs. 11-12 E-mail: irlam@buffalo.edu

Part I: The Polis and the Production of Space

1. Tues, Aug 31 -- Introduction. The idiom of space:   Space and the polis
   


2. Tues, Sept. 7 -- Detienne, "Qu'est-ce qu'un site?" (provided) 
   Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger, chs. 1-2, 7-9.
   Kristeva, Powers of Horror, chs. 1-2 (Reserve)



3. Tues, Sept. 14 -- Gaston Bachelard,  The Poetics of Space
   

Tues, Sept. 21 -- NO CLASS, Follow Monday Schedule

4. Tues, Sept. 28 -- Henri Lefèbvre, The Production of Space, chs. 1-4
 


5. Tues, Oct. 5 -- Lefèbvre, The Production of Space, chs. 5-7
 


Part II. Geographies of Capital: Modernism and Postmodernity

6. Tues, Oct. 12 --  Fredric Jameson, "The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" in Postmodernism;
   David Harvey, Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference, Part I



7. Tues, Oct. 19 -- Harvey, Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference, Parts II-III
 


8. Tues, Oct. 26 -- Harvey, Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference,   Part IV;
   Soja, Postmodern Geographies, chs. 1-6



9. Tues, Nov. 2 -- Soja, Postmodern Geographies, chs. 7-9 
   Mike Davis, City of Quartz



10. Tues, Nov. 9 -- Davis, City of Quartz;  Gillian Rose, Feminism and Geography



Part III: The Spaces of Empire and Postcolonial Geographies

11. Tues, Nov. 16 -- Fanon, Wretched of the Earth
 


12. Tues, Nov. 23 -- Said, Orientalism, pp. 1-110; Bhabha, Location of Culture chs. 8-9, 12
 


13. Tues, Nov. 30 -- Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt
 


14. Tues, Dec. 7 -- Ayi Kwei Armah,  The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born
    
    Final Papers Due: December 7

Ackbar Abbas, Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance

Walter Benjamin, Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism

Paul Carter, The Road to Botany Bay

Susan Buck-Morss, The Dialectics of Seeing

Partha Chatterjee, The Nation and Its Fragments. Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger

Derek Gregory, Geographical Imaginations

David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity

Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism

Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror

Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City

Kristin Ross, The Emergence of Social Space

Gillian Rose, Feminism and Geography

Gyan Prakash ed., After Colonialism. Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements

Neil Smith, Uneven Developments

Gayatri Spivak, Critique of Postcolonial Reason

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