Spring 2006: ENGL/ASRC 472-672

Spring 2006: ENGL/ASRC 472-672 Mondays 6:30-9:30pm; Uris Hall G28 Elizabeth DeLoughrey Department of English, GS 250 Office Hrs: T/R 2-3pm, GS 265 [email protected] Ph. 255-3411

Class Blackboard site: http://blackboard.cornell.edu

This interdisciplinary course examines theories of globalization and modernity in relation to the cultural production of the Caribbean and Pacific Islands. By drawing upon diverse fields such as cultural, environmental, literary, and postcolonial studies, we will explore why particular spaces are associated with the production of history and examine how even the smallest islands have contributed to world modernity. We will draw from studies in environmental imperialism to complicate the myth of the isolated tropical isle and place this in a dialogue with contemporary discourses of island tourism. By engaging what Kamau Brathwaite calls the constant “tidalectic” between land and sea, we’ll consider how the history and geography of island spaces help deepen our understanding of home, nation, and transoceanic migration. Derek Walcott’s suggestion that “the sea is history” will be considered in relation to indigenous, creole, and diaspora island literatures. This course will be taught in collaboration with the Islands of Globalization project hosted at the University of Hawai’i/East West Center. During spring break, members of the class will travel to Honolulu to participate in research activities with the Islands of Globalization team. (See www.movingislands.net)

Required Books Derek Walcott Omeros Jamaica Kincaid A Small Place Robert Sullivan Star Waka Olive Senior Gardening in the Tropics J.S. Kanwal The Morning Epeli Hau’ofa Tales of the Tikongs Patricia Grace Potiki Edwidge Danticat Krik?Krak! Ramabai Espinet Swinging Bridge

Recommended Texts Haunani-Kay Trask From A Native Daughter (also E-Book) Haunani-Kay Trask We are not happy Natives (Dvd) DeLoughrey, Gosson, Handley (eds.) Caribbean Literature and the Environment

Required Films (On reserve at Uris Media Center) Velvet Dreams (Sima Urale, Video 2262a) Bitter Cane (Jacques Arcelin, Video 3382) Life and Debt (Stephanie Black, Videodisc 1002) Radio Bikini (Robert Stone; Video 677) Half Life: A Parable for the Nuclear Age (Dennis O'Rourke, Video 1440) Sacred Vessels: Navigating Tradition & Identity in Micronesia, Vince Diaz, DU500 .S23x 1997

Course Requirements: 20% Class Participation 15% Leading Class Discussion 25% Tri-Weekly Response Papers 15% Final Essay Proposal or Waikiki Report 25% Final Research Project/Essay

20% Class Participation: includes showing up to class on time and prepared, having completed all readings and film viewings, contributing thoughtful insights to class discussion, participation in chat sessions, email discussions, and at least one contribution to our blackboard “web resources” page.

25% Tri-Weekly Response Papers: These are 2-3 page (max) response papers that bring two class assignments (essays, novels, poems, films, etc.) into a thoughtful dialogue that speaks to the overall concerns of the class. Both readings must be current to our class discussion. The papers can focus on two articles assigned for the same day, a novel/poem and an article assigned a week apart, but the paper must be submitted before one of the readings is discussed in class. You may not submit two papers in the same week. These are short formal papers so they must be well articulated, use textual evidence, and posted to the class Blackboard site. I encourage you to comment on each others’ papers and to use them as a foundation for your final essay. Graduate students must submit 5 short papers in all, undergraduates, 3. Two of these papers must be submitted before the spring break. If you submit more than the required amount, your lowest grades will be dropped.

15% Leading Class Discussion Each student will sign up for a class discussion session. This means that you will be in charge of all of the readings for that day. You will summarize some of the main ideas and select a few connections between texts to get our discussions going. You are encouraged to select passages from the primary texts to facilitate close readings and create handouts with discussion questions and pertinent quotes. Maximum 10 minutes each discussant. Handouts should be submitted to the class blackboard the night before class.

15% Final Essay Proposal This is a 3-5 page proposal for your final project that you may hand in at any time prior to April 24th (hardcopy). Those traveling to Hawai’i and participating in the Waikiki field trip can substitute this assignment with a written report of your group project, due April 1st (hardcopy).

25% Final Research Project/Essay This should be a development of your essay proposal and should focus on one core text from our readings and its significance to the themes of the course. (If you did not submit a proposal, email me a one-paragraph description of your final essay for approval and feedback by May 2.) Grads must submit a 15-20 page final essay, undergrads 10-15pp. All essays are due May 19 th and must be submitted in hardcopy to my mailbox. Due to my sabbatical schedule, I cannot accept requests for extensions or incompletes.

Note on the readings/films: The reading list for this class is extensive; we have to do justice to two regions, their histories, literatures, contemporary struggles with globalization as well as the ongoing discourse of postcolonial, indigenous, and globalization studies. Please do your best to read everything before class. All required films are on reserve at Uris Library and must be seen before class. Because E-Books (explained below) have limitations on the number of people who can check them out online, do get to these readings early to ensure access.

2 Undergraduate students can drop one supplementary reading per week and in condensed weeks (i.e. 4, 5, 6, 10, 11 only) may cut back by two secondary readings. If you have any questions about terminology or any aspects of the readings, do post them to the list as soon as they arise and bring questions to class.

Class Syllabus E-Book: Full text available online through Cornell Library Catalogue Muse: Available online through library’s “Project Muse,” electronic database Pdf: Available electronically through Cornell Library’s Course Reserve under my name BBpdf Available on Blackboard website HR=Hardcopy reserve at Uris Library

1. January 23: Introduction to the Course: Islands and Desire Island myths: Colonials & Castaways Derek Walcott “The Sea is History” (handout and audio) Kamau Brathwaite: poems from The Arrivants (handout and audio) “Pebbles,” “Islands” “Unrighteousness of Mammon” Rec: AG Hopkins “Globalization: An Agenda for Historians” and “The History of Globalization” in Globalization in World History (BBpdf) Film showing: Velvet Dreams Homework: Join Islands-L by sending the following command to: [email protected] Join Islands-L "your name" (include the quotation marks, use plain text, do not append signature)

2. January 30 : Transatlantic I-lands: Teleconference with UH class Derek Walcott Omeros (Books 1-2; 1-131); (& in-class audio) Antonio Benítez-Rojo Introduction to The Repeating Island (1-29) (pdf/BBpdf) See also: http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/wyrick/debclass/rojo.htm Thomas Klak, “Introduction: 13 Theses,” Globalization and Neoliberalism (3-22) (E-Book) Rec: Kamau Brathwaite: The Arrivants “The Emigrants,” “South” (pdf) Rec: José Rabasa “Allegories of Atlas” The Postcolonial Studies Reader (BBpdf)

3. February 6: Mapping Atlantic Modernities Walcott Omeros (Books 3-6; 133-277) Jerry Brotton “Terrestrial Globalism: Mapping the Globe” (71-89) (pdf/BBpdf) Peter Hulme “Beyond the Straits: Postcolonial Allegories of the Globe” (41-59) (pdf) Mary Louise Pratt “Modernity and Periphery: Towards a Global Analysis” (pdf) Rec: Neil Lazarus “Modernity, Globalization and the West” Nationalism and Cultural Practice (16-67) (E-Book)

4. February 13 Transoceanic Imaginary: The Black Atlantic Walcott Omeros conclusion Andrew Salkey “Middle Passage Anancy” Anancy, Traveller (11-15) (pdf) Paul Gilroy Introduction to The Black Atlantic (1-40) (pdf) Edouard Glissant excerpts from Caribbean Discourse (61-7;92-3;104-9;115-17;144-50;221-235)(pdf) Some parts full text: http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/wyrick/debclass/glissa1.htm Glissant excerpts from Poetics of Relation (5-9;11-22;32-35; 205-07) (pdf) Rec: Roland Robertson “Globalization as a Problem” (8-31) “World Systems Theory, Culture, and Images of World Order”(61-83) Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture (E-Book)

3 Rec: Richard Harris “Globalization and Globalism in Latin America and the Caribbean” (171-6) (pdf)

5. February 20: Transoceanic Imaginary: Pacific Voyagers Selections from Robert Sullivan Star Waka Selections from Teresia Teaiwa Searching from Nei’Nimanoa (Preface, Travellers, For Salome, No one is an Island, Misplaced Native (HR) Albert Wendt “Towards a New Oceania” South Pacific Literature (9-19) (pdf) Epeli Hau’ofa “Our Sea of Islands” (BBpdf) Paul Sharrad “Imagining the Pacific” Meanjin (597-605) (pdf) T. Teaiwa “Native Thoughts: Pacific Studies Take on Cultural Studies and Diaspora” (15-32) (pdf) Rec: Katerina Teaiwa “Our Sea of Phosphate” Indigenous Diasporas (169-189)(pdf) Rec: The Contemporary Pacific on “The Oceanic Imaginary” Spring 2001 (Muse) Rec: Wilson and Dirlik, Introduction to Asia/Pacific as space of cultural production Rec: The Navigators

6. February 27: Indenture and Plantation: Teleconference with Jon Okamura, Ethnic Studies, UH J.S. Kanwal The Morning (Savera) In class film showing: Bitter Sweet Hope (excerpts) Subramani “The End of Free States: on Transnationalization of Culture” (146-162) (pdf) Ali Behdad “On Globalization, Again” (62-78) (pdf) Timothy Brennan “From development to globalization: postcolonial studies and globalization theory” in Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies (pdf) Rec: Vijay Mishra “The Diasporic Imaginary and the Indian Diaspora” (1-25) (pdf) Rec: Epeli Hau’ofa “The Ocean in Us” (pdf)

Recommended: March 3-4 Indigenous Cartographies Conference at the Society for the Humanities http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/mapping/index.html

7. March 6 Militarism and Militourism: Visit by Vicente Diaz, University of Michigan Film: Sacred Vessels, Vicente Diaz Diaz and Kauanui “Native Pacific Cultural Studies on the Edge” Contemporary Pacific (Muse) Hone Tuwhare “No Ordinary Sun” (pdf) Witi Ihimaera “Wiwi, or if New Zealand was the Centre of the World” (BBPdf) Teresia Teaiwa “bikinis and other s/pacific n/oceans.” Voyaging… Contemporary Pacific (pdf) Films: Radio Bikini and Half life: A parable for the nuclear age (see before class) Terenesia “Bad Coconuts” (in class audio) Rec: Andrew Salkey Anancy, Traveller “Holocaust Anancy” “Anancy & the Land of the Super-I,” “Face up Race thing” (HR)

8. March 13: Hawai’i: Indigeneity and militourism: Teleconference with UH class Selections from Haunani-Kay Trask From A Native Daughter “Introduction,” “New World Order,” & “Lovely Hula Hands” (E-Book and in campus book store) Haunani-Kay Trask cd-rom, choose selections, We are not happy Natives (in-class exercise) Held& McGrew “The Expanding Reach of Organized Violence” in Global Transformations (pdf) Cynthia Enloe “On the Beach: Sexism and Tourism” Bananas, Beaches and Bases (E-Book) Rec: Ferguson and Turnbull, Introduction and “Traffic in Tropical Bodies” from Oh Say Can You See, The Semiotics of the Military in Hawai’i (BBpdf) Rec: Smith, Burke, and Ward “Globalisation and Indigenous Peoples” (1-24) (BBpdf)

4 Rec: Waikiki website: www.downwindproductions.com

March 20: Spring Break: Trip to the University of Hawai’i at Manoa/East-West Center Activities: Film screening of An Island Invaded with director Esther Figueroa; Film Screening of Noho Hewa Ma Hawai’i Nei with director Keala Kelly; Tour of The Hawaiian Studies Center, Makua Valley, and the Waipahu Plantation Village; Waikiki Exercise, Attending Albert Wendt’s “The Songmaker’s Chair” at Kumu Kahua Theatre. Rec. Reading: Milton Murayama All I asking for is my body; Albert Wendt The Songmaker’s Chair

9. March 27: Class Rescheduled to Wednesday, March 29, 630-930pm *Meet in Olin Library 603 Island Ecologies: Caribbean Olive Senior Gardening in the Tropics Introduction to Caribbean Literature and the Environment (BBpdf) Selections from Jamaica Kincaid My Garden (Book) (BBpdf) Richard Grove Green Imperialism: Introduction (1-15) (pdf) Rec: Grove, “Edens, islands, and early empires” (16-72) (pdf/HR) Rec. film: Landscape and Memory: Martinican Land-History-People Rec: Richard Grove: The Culture of Islands http://ecoethics.net/hsev/200004txt.htm

10. April 3 Island Ecologies: Pacific *Meet in Olin Library 603 Patricia Grace Potiki Sudesh Mishra “No Sign is an Island” (337-343) (pdf) Anna Tsing “The Global Situation” Cultural Anthropology (327-355)(pdf) Anna Tsing Introduction to Friction (1-18)(BBpdf) Larry Lohman “Resisting Green Globalism” Global Ecology (157-167) (Pdf) Rec: Lockwood “The Global Imperative and Pacific Island Societies” Globalization & Cultre Chnge (pdf) Rec film: Living on Islands (Hawai’i)

11. April 10 Creolization & Hybridity: Viranjini Munasinghe, Dept of Anthropology Ramabai Espinet Swinging Bridge Viranjini Munasinghe “Creolization and Globalization in Trinidad” (BBpdf) Jan Pieterse Globalization as Hybridization Globalization Reader (99-105)(pdf) Edouard Glissant and Kamau Brathwaite “A Dialogue: Nation Language and the Poetics of Creolization” Creole Presence in the Caribbean and Latin America (BBpdf) Mimi Sheller “Creolization in global culture” Consuming the Caribbean (BBpdf) Chris Bongie “Within the Shady Hold of Modernity” (3-24) Islands and Exiles (pdf) Rec: Bongie “A Glow of After-Memory” Islands and Exiles (pdf)

Date to be announced: Film Showing: Bitter Cane English Lounge 258

12. April 17 Globalization-Haiti: Charles Venator Santiago, Dept of Politics, Ithaca College Film: Bitter Cane Edwidge Danticat Krik?Krak!: “Children of the Sea” “1937” “Missing Peace” & “Epilogue: Women Like Us” Michel-Rolph Trouillot “The Perspective of the World: Globalization Then and Now” (pdf) Hilary Beckles "Capitalism, Slavery and Caribbean Modernity" Callaloo (Muse) Gibson-Graham “Querying Globalization” (BBpdf) Carla Freman “Is Global: Local Male: Female?” (BBpdf) 5 Rec: Sidney Mintz Sugar and Sweetness

April 20: Talk by Kamala Kempadoo on Sex tourism and the Caribbean at I.C.

13. April 24 Globalization & Caribbean Tourism Film: Life and Debt Jamaica Kincaid A Small Place M Nourbese Philip “A Piece of Land Surrounded” (41-46) (pdf) Dionne Brand “Sketches in Transit…Going Home” Sans Souci and other stories (pdf) Brathwaite: The Namsetoura Papers/Cowpastor site: http://www.tomraworth.com/wordpress/ Cheryl Shanks “Nine Quandaries of Tourism” online: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~drclas/publications/revista/Tourism/shanks.html Mimi Sheller “Natural Hedonism: The Invention of Caribbean Islands as Tropical Playgrounds” http://www.scsonline.freeserve.co.uk/olv2p7.pdf Rec: M. Jacqui Alexander ‘Erotic autonomy as a politics of decolonization…the Bahamas tourist economy’ Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures (BBpdf) Rec: Enloe “Carmen Miranda on My Mind” Bananas, Beaches and Bases (E-Book) Rec: Andrew Salkey “Island of Hope” Anancy, Traveller (HR)

14. May 1. Globalization and Pacific Development * Class held in Olin Library 603 Epeli Hau’ofa Tales of the Tikongs Firth “The Pacific Islands and the Globalization Agenda” The Contemporary Pacific (Muse) Stewart-Harawira New Imperial Order: Indigenous Responses to Globalization Introduction (1-27) and Chpt 7 “Global Governance and the Return of Empire” (BBpdf) T. Teaiwa “On Analogies: Rethinking the Pacific in a Global Context” Contemporary Pacific (Muse) Simon Gikandi, "Globalization and the Claims of Postcoloniality," SAQ (Muse) O’Brien and Szeman “The Globalization of Fiction/The Fiction of Globalization” SAQ (Muse)

6 Additional Resources

Recommended Films (Send one paragraph of commentary to Islands-L for extra credit) Landscape and Memory: Martinican Land-History-People; Gosson and Faden, Video 3241 Living on Islands; Victoria Keith, Olin DU623.25 .L58 1997 Ancestors in the Americas: coolies, sailors, settlers; Long Ding, Olin Video 1872 Back to the roots; Dana Naone Hall & Victoria Keith, Olin SB211.T2 B33 1994 Then there were none; Elizabeth Kapu`uwailani Lindsey, Olin DU624.65 .T44 1996 Sugar slaves: the history of Australia's slave trade; Olin Video 3252 Black harvest; Robin Anderson and Bob Connolly, Olin Video 936 Derek Walcott; Tony Knox, Africana Video 464 The Navigators Video 982 Advertising Missionaries (on order) Kilim Taem (or order)

Online Islands of Globalization home page: www.movingislands.net United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Website: http://islands.unep.ch/ Global Islands Network http://www.globalislands.net/ Special issue on Island Studies TESG: Journal of Economic and Social Geography. 95:3 (2004). http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/tesg Special issue on Island Studies Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/geob/2003/00000085/00000004 Special issue of Public Culture on globalization, Ed. Appadurai http://muse.jhu.edu.ezproxy.library.cornell.edu:2048/journals/public_culture/toc/pc12.1.html