Graduate Exam Reading List Trans/Post-Nationalism

Graduate Exam Reading List

Trans/Post-Nationalism

1. 
   Ahmad, Aijaz. In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures (1992)
   
2. 
   Altman, Dennis. Social Text. “Rupture or Continuity? The Internationalization of Gay Identities” 48, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Fall 1996)
   
3. 
   Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities and “Long-Distance Nationalism” in The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia and the World Pgs. 58-74
   
4. 
   Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity at Large. University of Minnesota Press (2005 [1996])
   
5. 
   Appadurai, Arjun. Public Culture. “Patriotism and Its Futures” Vol. 5 No. 3 Pgs. 411-429
   
6. 
   Bhabha, Homi. (ed) Nation and Narration and "DissemiNation: time, narrative, and the margins of the modern nation"; Timothy Brennan, "The national longing for form"; Doris Sommer, "Irresistible Romance: the foundational fictions of Latin America"; Ernest Renan, “What is a Nation?” (Selections)
   
7. 
   Buck-Morss, Susan. Hegel and Haiti and Universal History
   
8. 
   Casanova, Pascale. New Left Review 31. “Literature as World” (Jan.–Feb. 2005): pgs. 71–90
   
9. 
   Casanova, Pascale. New Left Review 72. “Combative Literatures” New Left Review 72 (Nov.–Dec. 2011): pgs. 123–134
   
10. 
    Chatterjee, Partha. Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories. Princeton UP (1993)
    
11. 
    Cheah, P. and B. Robbins. (eds) Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling beyond the Nation: “Introduction Part I: Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism”; "Comparative Cosmopolitanisms"; “Introduction Part II: The Cosmopolitical—Today” Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press (Selections)
    
12. 
    Clifford, James. Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century. “Diaspora” (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1997) Pgs. 244–277
    
13. 
    Damrosch, David. What is World Literature?
    
14. 
    Deleuze, Giles. Minor Transnationalism. “What is a Minor Literature?” with Françoise Lionnet and Shu-Mei Shih, “Thinking through the Minor, Transnationally” (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005) Pgs. 1–23
    
15. 
    Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth
    
16. 
    Garcia Canclini, Nestor. Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity
    
17. 
    Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press (1983)
    
18. 
    Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic
    
19. 
    Hall, Stuart. Identity: Community, Culture, Difference. “Cultural Identity and Diaspora” and “Thinking the Diaspora: Home-thoughts from abroad”
    
20. 
    Hobsbawn, E.J. Nations and Nationalism Since 1780. NY Cambridge University Press (1990)
    
21. 
    Jameson, Fredric. A Singular Modernity (Verso, 2002) and “Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism” (1986)
    
22. 
    Mignolo, Walter. Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking
    
23. 
    Moreiras, Alberto. “A Storm Blowing from Paradise: Negative Globality” and “Critical Regionalism”
    
24. 
    Moretti, Franco. Distant Reading (Verso, 2013), esp. "Conjectures on World Literature"; "More Conjectures"; "Evolution, World-Systems, Weltliterature"; and perhaps one of the big, data-driven essays such as "Style, Inc”
    
25. 
    Negri and Hardt. Empire
    
26. 
    Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism
    
27. 
    Spivak, Gayatri. Critique of Postcolonial Reason. “Literature”
    
28. 
    Wallerstein, Immanuel. World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction (Duke, 2004)
    

Further Reading:

1. 
   Chatterjee, Partha. “Beyond the Nation? Or Within?” Social Text No. 56 Pgs. 57-69 (1998)
   
2. 
   Derrida, Jacques. “Onto-Theology of National-Humanism (Prolegomena to a Hypothesis)” Oxford Literary Review Vol. 14 No.1-2 (1992) Pgs. 3-23. And Monolingualism of the Other: or, The Prosthesis of Origin
   
3. 
   Dimock, Wai Chee and Lawrence Buell. (ed) Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature (2007) --at least this essay: Arac, Jonathan. “Global and Babel: Language and Planet in American Literature”
   
4. 
   Dimock, Wai Chee. Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time (Princeton: Princeton UP) Pgs. 1–51 (2006)
   
5. 
   Glissant, Edouard. Poetics of Relation
   
6. 
   Greenfeld, Liah. Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity (Harvard, 1992) (Selections)
   
7. 
   Gupta, Suman. “Globalization and Literature”
   
8. 
   Habermas, Jurgen. The Postnational Constellation and “Citizenship and National Identity: Some Reflections on the Future of Europe”
   
9. 
   Heidegger, M. “The Age of World Picture”
   
10. 
    Huggan, Graham. A Companion to Comparative Literature. “The Trouble with World Literature” ed. by Ali Behdad and Dominic Thomas (Oxford: Blackwell, 2011) Pgs. 490–506
    
11. 
    Kant, Immanuel. Toward Perpetual Peace
    
12. 
    Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. Manifesto of the Communist Party
    
13. 
    Moretti, Franco. Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History (NY: Verso, 2007)
    
14. 
    Nussbaum, Martha. “Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism” Boston Review (October- November 1994) Pgs. 3-16. Republished, with replies, as Nussbaum and Joshua Cohen, eds. For Love of Country: Debating the Limits of Patriotism Boston: Beacon Press (1996)
    
15. 
    Prendergast, Christopher. (ed) Debating World Literature (London: Verso, 2004)
    
16. 
    Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. The Social Contract
    
17. 
    Santos, Boaventura de Sousa. Theory, Culture & Society. "Globalizations" Pgs. 23, 2-3, 393-399; "A Non-Occidentalist West?: Learned Ignorance and Ecology of Knowledge” in Theory, Culture & Society (2009), Vol. 26 No. 7-8 Pgs. 103-125
    

1. 
   Santos, Boaventura de Sousa. “Occidentalism: Jack Goody and Comparative History” in Theory, Culture & Society Vol. 26 No. 7-8
   
2. 
   Santos, Boaventura de Sousa. "Beyond Abyssal Thinking: From Global Lines to Ecologies of Knowledges" in Review Vol. XXX-1 Pgs. 45-89
   

18. 
    Saussy, Haun. Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization. “Exquisite Cadavers Stitched from Fresh Nightmares: of Memes, Hives, and Selfish Genes” (2006)
    
19. 
    Schwarz, Roberto. Misplaced Ideas
    
20. 
    Schwarz, Roberto. “National by Subtraction”
    
21. 
    Smith, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. R. H. Campbell, A. S. Skinner, and W.B. Todd (eds.) Indianapolis: Liberty Classics (1976)
    
22. 
    Spivak, Gayatri. In Other Worlds
    
23. 
    Trumpener. Bardic Nationalism
    
24. 
    Wallerstein, Immanuel. The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century (1974) and/or The End of the World as We Know It
    
25. 
    Wallerstein, Immanuel. (ed) The Modern World System in the Longue Durée
    
26. 
    Xie, Shaobo. “Is the World Decentered: A Postcolonial Perspective on Globalization”