Essential Reading
Multicultural and Transnational Literatures
Alcoff, Linda. “The Problem of Speaking for Others.” Cultural Critique. (1991):5-31.
Appiah, Kwame Anthony. “Is the ‘Post-‘ in ‘Postcolonial’ the ‘Post-‘ in ‘Postmodern’?” Critical Inquiry 17 (1991): 336-57.
Bhabha, Homi. The Location of Culture. New York: Routledge, 1994. Chapters 3 and 7.
Christian Barbara. “The Race for Theory.” The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse. Eds. Abdul R. JanMohamed and David Lloyd. New York: Oxford UP, 1990. 37-49.
Hall, Stuart. “Cultural Identity and Diaspora.” Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader. Keyworks in Cultural Studies 6. Eds. Jana Evans Braziel and Anita Mannur. Malden, MA, Blackwell, 2003. 233-46.
JanMohamed, Abdul R. “The Economy of Manichean Allegory: The Function of Racial Difference in Colonial Literature.” Critical Inquiry 12.1 (1985): 59-87.
Morrison, Toni. “Black Matters.” Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1992.
Palumbo-Liu, David. “Introduction.” The Ethnic Canon: Histories, Institutions, and Interventions. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1995. 1-27.
Spivak. Gayatri Chakravorty. “Can the Subaltern Speak?” Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture. Urbana: U of Illinois P. 1988. 271-313.
Wiegman, Robyn. “‘My Name is Forrest, Forrest Gump’: Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity.” Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality, and Transnational Media (2003): 227-255.
