Books, books, books~!
I don't even know where to start. I ordered some twenty books before I received my notification from Brown, thinking that I needed to write a new writing sample to reapply for schools. Now I have a ton of books (with more on the way!) and I'm not even sure where to begin. Here is the list:
Alcoff, Linda; Hames-Garcia, Michael; Mohanty Satya; and Moya, Paula. Identity Politics Reconsidered
Barthes, Roland. Mythologies
Bhabha, Homi. The Location of Culture
Butler, Judith and Spivak, Gayatri. Who Sings in the Nation-State?
Cheng, Anne. The Melancholy of Race
Culler, Jonathan. The Literary in Theory
Minh-ha, Trinh. When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender, and Cultural Politics
Mohanty, Chandra. Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity
Moya, Paula. Learning From Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles
Moya, Paula and Hames-Garcia, Michael. Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism
Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism
Said, Edward. Orientalism
Spivak, Gayatri. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason
Spivak, Gayatri. In Other Worlds
I started with The Location of Culture, though I want to read everything! Ahhhhh. So excited. There are more books on the way, too.
I think I am going to be practicing academic writing in the next few months. I might just do random postcolonial readings of different books to test out doing theoretical readings and to brush off the dust, since it's been two years that I've had a chance to really write academically. I might still do an essay on Naruto, though I think I want to write another essay on Patricia Powell's The Pagoda and a new essay on Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior.
In other news, I've been officially rejected by U Penn and Rutgers finally! Well, it's not that big of a deal since I'm definitely going to Brown. Visiting tomorrow!! Am so excited.
Edit: Ahhh! I just received a few readings for the class I am sitting in on tomorrow. So exciting. I can't wait to read these later!
Alcoff, Linda; Hames-Garcia, Michael; Mohanty Satya; and Moya, Paula. Identity Politics Reconsidered
Barthes, Roland. Mythologies
Bhabha, Homi. The Location of Culture
Butler, Judith and Spivak, Gayatri. Who Sings in the Nation-State?
Cheng, Anne. The Melancholy of Race
Culler, Jonathan. The Literary in Theory
Minh-ha, Trinh. When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender, and Cultural Politics
Mohanty, Chandra. Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity
Moya, Paula. Learning From Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles
Moya, Paula and Hames-Garcia, Michael. Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism
Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism
Said, Edward. Orientalism
Spivak, Gayatri. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason
Spivak, Gayatri. In Other Worlds
I started with The Location of Culture, though I want to read everything! Ahhhhh. So excited. There are more books on the way, too.
I think I am going to be practicing academic writing in the next few months. I might just do random postcolonial readings of different books to test out doing theoretical readings and to brush off the dust, since it's been two years that I've had a chance to really write academically. I might still do an essay on Naruto, though I think I want to write another essay on Patricia Powell's The Pagoda and a new essay on Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior.
In other news, I've been officially rejected by U Penn and Rutgers finally! Well, it's not that big of a deal since I'm definitely going to Brown. Visiting tomorrow!! Am so excited.
Edit: Ahhh! I just received a few readings for the class I am sitting in on tomorrow. So exciting. I can't wait to read these later!