PROFESSOR BARYON POSADAS will be teaching ALL 8001: Critical
Approaches to Asian Literature and Cultural Studies. This
course will meet on Mondays and Wednesdays from 1:00PM- 2:15PM in Folwell 119. This
course will provide critical and theoretical foundations for incoming graduate
students in Asian Literatures, Cultures, and Media program. See below for more information.
"This
course aims to provide critical and theoretical foundations for
incoming graduate students in Asian Literatures, Cultures, and Media
program, while also addressing broader questions that would be of
interest to students in other departments in the Humanities and Social
Sciences. Our project will be to generate discussion about the
theoretical and political complexities of studying Asian texts in
America, taking account of several inter-related questions at the heart
of the work of Asian Studies, focusing especially on the issue of
articulating the relationship between culture and capital in the context
of Asia. Beginning with Marx’s critique of political economy as our
point of departure, we will take up a range of questions revolving
around debates over historiography (on primitive accumulation,
colonialism, postmodernity, and globalization) and the relationship
between cultural studies and political-economy (the political
unconscious, ideology and subjectivity, national allegory, the attention
economy, gender) with a particular attention to the complications posed
by taking “Asia” as the object of intellectual inquiry in any such
analysis. Our discussions will consider key problematics in cultural
theory, the uses of such theory in the Asian context, and critical
interventions by scholars of Asia."
