GUEST FACULTY MEMBER
LAURA FAIR

This session is the first of three sessions in which members of the history department faculty will come to class to talk about scholarship on nationalism and transnationalism in their specific fields. This week Professor Laura Fair will focus our thoughts on questions of gender and nationalism..  Although Professor Fair will offer a few introductory remarks, the bulk of the class discussion is up to you, so come to class prepared to ask questions about the assigned readings, the topics of our class, and other matters of interest.

Reading Assignment:

Susan Geiger, TANU Women : Gender and Culture in The Making Of Tanganyikan Nationalism, 1955-1965

 

Suggestions for Further Reading:

*Mahmood Mamdani, Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism. Princeton, 1996.

*Basil Davidson, The Black Man's Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State. New York, 1992.

*Susan Geiger, TANU Women: Gender and Culture in the Making of Tanganyikan Nationalism, 1955-1965. Heinemann, 1997.

*Kelly Askew, Performing the Nation : Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania. Chicago, 2002.

*Luise White, The Assassination Of Herbert Chitepo : Texts And Politics In Zimbabwe. Indiana University Press, 2002.

Takashi Fujitani, Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan. University of California Press, 1996.

*Prasenjit Duara, Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China. University of Chicago Press, 1995 (introduction and ch. 1 & 2).

*Sow-Theng Leong, Migration and Ethnicity in Chinese History. Stanford, 1997.

*Lynn Pan, Sons of the Yellow Emperor. Boston, 1990.

*Wang Gungwu, China and the Chinese Oversees. Singapore, 1991.

*James Millward, Beyond the Pass: Economy, Ethnicity and Empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759-1864. Stanford, 1998.

*Martin W. Lewis and Karen E. Wigen, The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography. University of California, 1997.

*Glenn May, Inventing a Hero: The Posthumous Re-creation of Andres Bonifacio. Wisconsin, 1996.

*Thongchai Winichakul, Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation. Hawaii, 1994.

*Anthony Milner, The Invention of Politics in Colonial Malaya: Contesting Nationalism and the Expansion of the Public Sphere. Cambridge, 1994.

Adam McKeown, "Conceptualizing Chinese Diasporas, 842 to 1949." Journal of Asian Studies 58 (2, May 1999): 306-337.

Prasenjit Duara, "Nationalists among Transnationals: Overseas Chinese and the Idea of China, 1911-1911." In Aiwa Ong and Donald Nonini, eds., Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism. Routledge, 1997.

Jennifer Cushman and Wung Gungwu, eds., Changing Identities of the Southeast Asian Chinese Since World War II. Hong Kong University Press, 1988.

Tani Barlow, ed., Formations of Colonial Modernity in East Asia. Duke, 1997.

Aihwa Ong and Donald M. Nonini, eds., Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism. Routledge, 1997.

Elaine H. Kim and Chungmoo Choi, eds., Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism. Routledge, 1998.

Mariko Tamanoi, Under the Shadow of Nationalism: Politics and Poetics of Rural Japanese Women. University of Hawai'i Press, 1998.

Arif Dirlik, "Confucius in the Borderlands: Global Capitalism and the Reinvention of Confucianism." Boundary 2 22 (3, 1995).

Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Re-inventing Japan: Time, Space, Nation.  M.E. Sharpe, 1998.

Sharon Minichiello, ed., Japan's Competing Modernities.  University of Hawai'i Press, 1998.

Stephen Vlastos, Mirror of Modernity:  Invented Traditions of Modern Japan.  University of California Press, 1998.

*Louise Young, Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism.  University of California Press, 1998.

*Jennifer Robertson, Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan.  University of California Press, 1998.

*Herbert P. Bix, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan.  Harper Collins, 2000.

Andrew Edmund Goble, Kenmu: Go-Daigo's Revolution.  Harvard, 1996.

*John W. Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, Norton, 1999.

Helen Hardacre and Adam Kern, eds., New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan.  Brill, 1997.

*Gerald Figal, Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan. Duke, 1999.

Gregory W. Plugfelder, Cartographies of Desire:  Male-Male Discourse in Japanese Sexuality, 1600-1950.  University of California Press, 1999.

Karen Wigen, The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920. University of California Press, 1995.

*Michael Lewis, Becoming Apart: National Power and Local Politics in Toyama, 1868-1945. Harvard, 2000.

T. Brook, A. Schmid,  Nation work : Asian elites and national identities.  University of Michigan Press, 2000.

Vicente L. Rafael, Discrepant Histories: translocal essays on Filipino culture. Anvil Publishing, 1995.

 

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