1960 - 2009: Secondary Readings

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Kwame Anthony Appiah. *“Is the Post-in Postmodernism the Post in Postcolonial?”.   

Judith Butler. *Preface, “Bodilyinscriptions, performative subversions” from Gender Trouble.

Noam Chomsky. “Neoliberalism and Global Order” in Profit Over People.

Linda Hutcheon. A Poetics of Postmodernism.

Fredric Jameson. “Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism”.

V.Y. Mudimbe. The Invention of Africa.

Xudong Zhang. Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms: Cultural Fever, Avant-Garde Fiction, and the New Chinese Cinema.

Slavoj Žižek. “The Real and its Vicissitudes” and “The Obscene Object of Postmodernity” in Looking Awry.