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Required Texts


Amazon logo Kincaid, Jamaica. A Small Place. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2000. ISBN: 9780374527075.

Amazon logo Ballard, J. G. Rushing to Paradise. New York, NY: Picador USA, 1995. ISBN: 9780312131647.

Amazon logo Le Carre, John. The Constant Gardener. New York, NY: Scribner, 2000. ISBN: 9780743215053.

Amazon logo Wa Thiong'o, Ngugi. Petals of Blood. New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 2005. ISBN: 9780143039174.

Amazon logo Fielding, Helen. Cause Celeb. New York, NY: Penguin, 2002. ISBN: 9780670891955.

Amazon logo Mistry, Rohinton. A Fine Balance. New York, NY: Knopf, 1996. ISBN: 9780679446088.

Guide to Close Reading (PDF)



Suggested Additional Reading


Edwards, Michael. "The Irrelevance of Development Studies." Third World Quarterly 11 (1989): 116-135.

Amazon logo Sen, Amartya. "The Ends and the Means of Development." Development As Freedom. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 35-53. ISBN: 9780375406195.

Slaughter, Joseph. "Enabling Fictions and Novel Subjects: The Bildungsroman and International Human Rights Law." PMLA 121, no. 5 (2006).

Roe, Emily. "Development Narratives, Or Making the Best of Blueprint Development." World Development 19, no. 4 (1991): 287-300.

Amazon logo Benjamin, Bret. "Success Stories: NGOs and the Banking Bildungsroman." Invested Interests: Capital, Culture, and the World Bank. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2007, pp. 135-164. ISBN: 9780816648733.

Agamben, Giorgio. "A Brief History of the State of Exception."

Amazon logo ———. "Form of Life." Means Without End: Notes on Politics. Translated by Vincenzo Binetti and Cesare Casarino. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2000, pp. 3-14. ISBN: 9780816630356.

Amazon logo ———. "Beyond Human Rights." Means Without End: Notes on Politics. Translated by Vincenzo Binetti and Cesare Casarino. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2000, pp. 15-28. ISBN: 9780816630356.



Readings by Session


All readings should be completed prior to their discussion.


Lec #TOPICS/READINGS
1Introduction
2"The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid"
3"The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid" (cont.)
4Climate change symposium
5"The Fortunate Traveller"
6"The Fortunate Traveller" (cont.)
7A Fine Balance, I-III
8Essay workshop
9

A Fine Balance (cont.), IV-XI

Class meets w/o professor B

10A Fine Balance (cont.), XII-end
11A Small Place
12A Small Place (cont.) / Life and Debt (film)
13Rushing to Paradise, to p. 91
14Review session
15Rushing to Paradise (cont.), to p. 168
16Rushing to Paradise (cont.), all
17The Constant Gardener, pp. 1-135
18The Constant Gardener (cont.), pp. 136-322
19The Constant Gardener (cont.), pp. 323-end
20Petals of Blood, part I
21Petals of Blood (cont.), parts I-III
22Petals of Blood (cont.), all
23

World bank and National Geographic narratives

Wachera, Becky, and Matthew Meyer. Sole Comfort Dot-Com.



Additional Readings


Scofield, John, and Raghubir Singh. "Bombay: The Other India." National Geographic 160 (July 1981): 104-129.

Grove, Noel, and Stevel Raymer. "The Caribbean: Sun, Sea and Seething." National Geographic 159 (February 1981): 244-271.

Swerdlow, Joel. "Global Culture." National Geographic 196 (August 1999): 2-33.

Hines-Smith, Leone M. "The Jamaica Trade Point Story: From Stress To Success."

24Cause Celeb, to p. 175
25Cause Celeb (cont.), to end
26Wrapping up

 








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