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Syllabus CARTOGRAPHIES OF DESIRE:RACE SEX & COLONIALISM - 54203
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Last update 23-09-2013
HU Credits: 2

Degree/Cycle: 2nd degree (Master)

Responsible Department: Cultural Studies

Semester: 1st Semester

Teaching Languages: Hebrew

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: Louise Bethlehem


Coordinator Office Hours: Tuesday 13:00-14:00

Teaching Staff:
Dr. Louise Bethlehem

Course/Module description:
Alongside the formal structures and institutions of imperial rule, colonialism depended also on a complex network of affective relations. The colonized other might be subjected to coercive sexual relations; might be included in quasi-familial domestic settings; or might constitute the object of erotic phobia, fetishization or taboo. This course examines the role of sexuality in the colonial encounter, its management and scripts, whether written, informal or unconscious. It treats the cartography of colonial desire across a range of cinematic and literary texts. The course begins with the investigation of fin-de-siecle miscegenation anxieties in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) and their resurgence in another fin-de-siecle context, Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). It reads the function of the white woman's body as boundary-marker in the Portuguese Renaissance epic, Os Lusiadas by Luiz Vas de Camoens (1572) that coincides with the first phase of European global expansion, before pursuing this motif in Claire Denis's film Chocolat (1988) and in J.M. Coetzee's post-apartheid novel Disgrace (1999)--both of which arise out of transitional moments of decolonization. It examines the fetishization of the racialized other in the writings of Franz Fanon and the cinema of Jane Campion (The Piano, 1993). A theoretical corpus comprising writings on colonialism and sexuality will also be surveyed, with a focus on the work of Ashis Nandy, Ann Laura Stoler, Jenny Sharpe and others.

Course/Module aims:
1. To analyse the role of sexuality in the management of colonial relations.
2. To investigate the usefulness of the construct of the fetish in the colonial arena.
3. To construct a comparative typology of rape discourses in colonial and postcolonial settings.

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. To survey colonial constructs of black and white sexuality.
2. To employ the fetish as an analytic construct.
3. To extend the comparative discussion of rape to historical contexts not covered in the course.

Attendance requirements(%):
100

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Lecture and Seminar

Course/Module Content:
Introduction: Outhouses of the European Soul
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Stoler, Ann Laura 2002 “Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Gender and Morality in the Making of Race” in Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (Berkeley: University of California Press).

Unit 1 éçéãä

The Vampire and Empire
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îôâù 2
Pick, Daniel
1988 ‘Terrors of the night’: Dracula and ‘degeneration’ in the late nineteenth Century,” Critical Quarterly 30 (4): 71-87.

Shuttleworth, Sally
1992 “Demonic Mothers:Ideologies of Bourgeois Motherhood in the Mid-Victorian Era,” inRewritingthe Victorians: Theory, History, and the Politics of Gender, ed. Linda M.Shires, 31-51 (London: Routledge).

Stott, Rebecca
1992 "Dracula: A Social Purity Crusade," in The Kiss of Death: The Fabrication of the Late-Victorian Femme Fatale 52-87 (London: Macmillan).

îôâù 3
Arata, Stephen D.
1999 “The Occidental Tourist: Dracula and the Anxiety of Reverse Colonisation,” in Dracula: New Casebooks, edited by Glennis Byron, 119-144 (London: St. Martin’s).

Hughes, William
2003 "A Singular Invasion: Revisiting the Postcoloniality of Bram Stoker's Dracula," in Empire and
the Gothic: The Politics of Genre, edited by Andrew Smith and William Hughes, 88-102
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan).


îôâù 4
Francis Ford Coppola 1992 Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Botting, Fred
2008 “Romance Never Dies,” in Gothic Romanced: Consumption, Gender and Technology in Contemporary Fictions (London and New York: Routledge).
Thomas, Ronald R.
2000 "Specters of the Novel: Dracula and the Cinematic Afterlife of the Victorian Novel" in Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century, edited by John Kucich and Dianne F. Sadoff, 288-310 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press).
Wicke, Jennifer
1992 “Vampiric Typewriting: Dracula and Its Media,” English Literary History, Vol. 59, No. 2 (Summer, 1992), pp.467-493.

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3. Colonialism and the Fetish
÷åìåðéàìéæí åäôèéù
îôâù 5

Pietz, William
1985 "The Problem of the Fetish," Res , 5-17.
Freud Sigmund
1961 "Fetishism" in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (vol. 21) translated by Strachey, James Anna Freud, Strachey, Alex and Tyson, Alan, 149-157. (London: The Hogarth Press)
Freud, S.
2001 (1922). “Medusa’s head.” In The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. Trans. under the general editorship of J. Strachey, in collaboration with A. Freud, assisted by A. Strachey and A. Tyson. Vol. 18, 273 –4. London: Vintage, The Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis.
îôâù 6

Screening: Jane Campion The Piano (1993)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107822/

Margolis, Harriet 2000 “’A Strange Heritage’: From Colonization to Transformation?” in Jane Campion’s The Piano, edited by Harriet Margolis, 1-41 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Perrault, Charles “Bluebeard”
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/perrault03.html


îôâù 7
Bhabha, Homi
1994 “Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse”, and “The Other Question: Stereotype, Discrimination and the Discourse of Colonialism” in The Location of Culture 66-92 (London and New York: Routledge).

Margaroni, Maria 2003 “Jane Campion’s Selling of the Mother?Land: Restaging the Crisis of the Postcolonial Subject,” Camera Obscura 53 (Volume 18, Number 2): 93-123 .
_Unit 3 éçéãä

4. “A Negro is Raping Me”
"ëåùé àåðñ àåúé"
úôâù 8
Fanon, Fanon 1967. Black skins, white masks. Trans. C. L. Markmann. New York: Grove Press. (Chapter 5: “The Fact of Blackness”).

îôâù 9
Screening: Claire Dénis Chocolat (1988)

øåôéï, ãôðä
2006 "áîàéåú ìáðåú åðåñèìâéä ÷åìåðéàìéú" úéàåøéä åáé÷åøú 29 2006: 9-30.

îôâù 10
Coetzee, J.M. 1998 Disgrace (London: Secker and Warburg).

Coetzee, J.M. 1987 (1992) "Jerusalem Prize Acceptance Speech" in Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews, edited by David Attwell, 96-99 (Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard University Press). (Handout)

Marais, Michael 2001 “Very morbid phenomena: “Liberal Funk”, the “Lucy-syndrome” and JM Coetzee's Disgrace,” Scrutiny2 Vol. 6(1): 32-28.

Wilhelm, Peter 1975 “Pyro Protram,” in LM and Other Stories , 55-64 (Johannesburg: Ravan). Moodle.

îôâù 11

Bethlehem, Louise
In Press “Adamastor’s Daughter: Lucy Lurie and “White Writing” in Disgrace” in Approaches to Teaching Coetzee’s Disgraceand Other Works, edited by Elleke Boehmer, Jane Poyner and Laura Wright (New York: Modern Language Association).
Camões, L. Vaz de. The Lusíads. 1572. Trans. L. White. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 1997. Print.
Sharpe, Jenny
1993. Allegories of Empire: The figure of woman in the colonial text. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press.
îôâù 12
Mardorossian, Carine M. “Rape and the Violence of Representation in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace,” Research in African Literatures, 42(4): 72-83. DOI: 10.1353/ral.2011.0069

McDonald, Peter 2002 “Disgrace Effects,” Interventions Vol. 4(3) 321–330.
DOI: 10.1080/1369801022000013851

îôâù 13
Screening: Steve Jacobs Disgrace (2008)

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty
2002 “Ethics and Politics in Tagore, Coetzee and Certain Scenes of Teaching” diacritics 32.3–4: 17–31


5. Sexual Utopias? An Interim Account
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Required Reading:
Primary Texts
Stoker, Bram
1993 (1897) Dracula (Ware, Herts: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.).
Coetzee, J.M.
1998 Disgrace (London: Secker and Warburg).

Secondary Sources
Said, Edward
1978 Orientalism (New York: Pantheon).

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2004 ÷åìåðéàìéåú åäîöá äôåñè ÷åìåðéàìé (éøåùìéí: ä÷áåõ äîàåçã åîëåï åï ìéø áéøåùìéí).
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2006 îç÷ø åúéàåøéä áìéîåãéí ôåñè ÷åìåðéàìééí úéàåøéä åáé÷åøú 29

Bibliography

Arata, Stephen D.
1999 “The Occidental Tourist: Dracula and the Anxiety of Reverse Colonisation,” in Dracula: New Casebooks, edited by Glennis Byron, 119-144 (London: St. Martin’s).
Bhabha, Homi
1994 “Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse”, and “The Other Question: Stereotype, Discrimination and the Discourse of Colonialism” in The Location of Culture 66-92 (London and New York: Routledge).
Botting, Fred
2008 “Romance Never Dies,” in Gothic Romanced: Consumption, Gender and Technology in Contemporary Fictions (London and New York: Routledge).
Camões, L. Vaz de. The Lusíads. 1572. Trans. L. White. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 1997. Print.
Coetzee, J.M.
1987 (1992) "Jerusalem Prize Acceptance Speech" in Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews, edited by David Attwell, 96-99 (Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard University Press). (Handout)
1998 Disgrace (London: Secker and Warburg).
Fanon, Fanon 1967. Black skins, white masks. Trans. C. L. Markmann. New York: Grove Press. (Chapter 5: “The Fact of Blackness”).
Freud Sigmund
1961 "Fetishism" in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (vol. 21) translated by Strachey, James Anna Freud, Strachey, Alex and Tyson, Alan, 149-157. (London: The Hogarth Press)
2001 (1922). “Medusa’s head.” In The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. Trans. under the general editorship of J. Strachey, in collaboration with A. Freud, assisted by A. Strachey and A. Tyson. Vol. 18, 273 –4. London: Vintage, The Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis.
Hughes, William
2003 "A Singular Invasion: Revisiting the Postcoloniality of Bram Stoker's Dracula," in Empire and
the Gothic: The Politics of Genre, edited by Andrew Smith and William Hughes, 88-102
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan).
Marais, Michael
2001 “Very morbid phenomena: “Liberal Funk”, the “Lucy-syndrome” and JM Coetzee's Disgrace,” Scrutiny2 6(1): 32-28.
Mardorossian, Carine M. “Rape and the Violence of Representation in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace,” Research in African Literatures, 42(4): 72-83. DOI: 10.1353/ral.2011.0069
Margaroni, Maria 2003 “Jane Campion’s Selling of the Mother?Land: Restaging the Crisis of the Postcolonial Subject,” Camera Obscura 53 (Volume 18, Number 2): 93-123 .
Margolis, Harriet 2000 “’A Strange Heritage’: From Colonization to Transformation?” in Jane Campion’s The Piano, edited by Harriet Margolis, 1-41 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
McDonald, Peter 2002 “Disgrace Effects,” Interventions Vol. 4(3) 321–330.
DOI: 10.1080/1369801022000013851
Pick, Daniel
1988 ‘Terrors of the night’: Dracula and ‘degeneration’ in the late nineteenth Century,” Critical Quarterly 30 (4): 71-87.
Pietz, William
1985 "The Problem of the Fetish," Res , 5-17.
Shuttleworth, Sally
1992 “Demonic Mothers:Ideologies of Bourgeois Motherhood in the Mid-Victorian Era,” inRewritingthe Victorians: Theory, History, and the Politics of Gender, ed. Linda M.Shires, 31-51 (London: Routledge).
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty
2002 “Ethics and Politics in Tagore, Coetzee and Certain Scenes of Teaching” diacritics 32.3–4: 17–31
Stoler, Ann Laura 2002 “Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Gender and Morality in the Making of Race” in Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (Berkeley: University of California Press).
Stott, Rebecca
1992 "Dracula: A Social Purity Crusade," in The Kiss of Death: The Fabrication of the Late-Victorian Femme Fatale 52-87 (London: Macmillan).
Thomas, Ronald R.
2000 "Specters of the Novel: Dracula and the Cinematic Afterlife of the Victorian Novel" in Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century, edited by John Kucich and Dianne F. Sadoff, 288-310 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press).
Wicke, Jennifer
1992 “Vampiric Typewriting: Dracula and Its Media,” English Literary History, Vol. 59, No. 2 (Summer, 1992), pp.467-493.
Wilhelm, Peter 1975 “Pyro Protram,” in LM and Other Stories , 55-64 (Johannesburg: Ravan). Moodle.

øåôéï, ãôðä
2006 "áîàéåú ìáðåú åðåñèìâéä ÷åìåðéàìéú" úéàåøéä åáé÷åøú 29 2006: 9-30

Additional Reading Material:
Select Additional Bibliography

Arondekar, Anjali
2005 “Without a Trace: Sexuality and the Colonial Archive” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 14 (1/2): 10-27.
Craft, Christopher
1994 "Just Another Kiss," In Another Kind of Love: Male Homosexual Desire in English Discourse, 71-105 (Los Angeles, Berkeley, London: University of California Press).
Hurley, Kelly
1996 The Gothic Body: Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the fin de siecle
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Kaye, Heidi
2000 "Gothic Film," in A Companion to the Gothic, edited by David Punter, 180-92 (Oxford: Blackwell).
Rickels, Laurence A.
1995 The Vampire Lectures (Minneapolis and London: Minnesota)
Robbins, Ruth and Julian Wolfreys, ed.
2001 Victorian Gothic: Literary and Cultural Manifestations in the Nineteenth Century
(Basingstoke: Palgrave).


Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 80 %
Presentation 20 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %

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