David Campion

Queen Elizabeth II on a state visit to Ghana, 1961 © UPI/Bettmann/Corbis

MAIN PAGE COURSE REQUIREMENTS ASSIGNMENTS DECOLONIZATION IN FILM

SCHEDULE OF CLASSES

FALL 2015

Week I: Introduction Aug 31: Introductory discussion Sep 2: Lecture: Review of the history of decolonization Suggested Reading: Wm. Roger Louis, "The colonial empires in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries" in Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Suez and Decolonization, 35-48 Martin Shipway, "Decolonization in comparative perspective" in Decolonization and its Impact, 1-17

Week II: Indochina and the Creation of a Postcolonial Quagmire Sep 7: LABOR DAY (NO CLASS) Sep 9: Discussion: Lawrence Discussion Leaders MELISSA DEAN Reading: Mark Lawrence, Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam

Week III: Independence and Partition in the Indian Subcontinent Sep 14: Discussion: Khan, Attlee, Churchill, Nehru Sep 16: Discussion: Khan, Attlee, Churchill, Nehru Discussion Leaders JOHN D PETE Reading: Yasmin Khan, The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan Clement Attlee, "The end of British rule in India" (1947) Winston Churchill, "Britain's shameful flight from India" (1947) Jawaharlal Nehru, "A tryst with destiny" (1947) [Audio: BBC Radio Archive] Suggested Film: Earth (1998)

Week IV: Decolonization and the Modern Middle East Sep 21: Discussion: Sluglett Sep 23: Discussion: Sluglett Discussion Leaders DRAKE NICK Reading: Peter Sluglett, Britain in Iraq: Contriving King and Country Sir Henry McMahon, Letter to Sherif Hussein ibn Ali (1915) Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916) T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922) [Introduction, Chs. 1-2] Images: Sir Mark Sykes and Georges Picot, Map proposing the postwar reconstruction of the Middle East (1916) T.E. Lawrence, Map proposing the postwar reconstruction of the Middle East (1918) [description] Map of the Mandate System in the Middle East (c.1930)

Week V: Algeria and France Sep 28: Discussion: Shepard Sep 30: Discussion: Fanon Discussion Leaders JOHN D RYAN Reading: Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism Todd Shepard, The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France Suggested Film: The Battle of Algiers (1966)

Week VI: Algeria and France (continued) Oct 5: Discussion: Shepard, Fanon Oct 7: Discussion: Shepard, Fanon Discussion Leaders JOHN D RYAN Reading: Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism Todd Shepard, The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France

Week VII: Literature of Decolonization Oct 12: Discussion: Achebe Oct 14: Discussion: Scott Discussion Leaders DEANE EMMA Reading: Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart Paul Scott, Staying On

Week VIII: Kenya's Colonial Emergency Oct 19: Discussion: Anderson Oct 21: Discussion: Anderson Discussion Leaders JOHN M DEAN Reading: David Anderson, Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire Jomo Kenyatta, "The Kenya Africa Union is not the Mau Mau" (1952)

Week IX: The Wind of Change Oct 26: Discussion: Hyam Oct 28: Discussion: Hyam Discussion Leaders RYAN LUKE Reading: Ronald Hyam, Britain's Declining Empire: The Road to Decolonization, 1918-1968 Harold Macmillan, "The Wind of Change"(1960) Video and Audio: Movietone News, Crisis in Suez (1956) BBC Four, The Other Side of Suez [documentary] (2004) BBC Radio Archive, Harold Macmillan's "Wind of Change" speech (1960)

Week X: Building a Postcolonial World Nov 2: Discussion: Lee, Sukarno, Nehru, Nyerere Nov 4: Discussion: Lee, Sukarno, Nehru, Nyerere Discussion Leaders DRAKE EMMA Reading: Christopher Lee (ed.), Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and its Political Afterlives Sukarno, "Speech at the Opening of the Bandung Conference" (1955) Jawaharlal Nehru, "Speech to the Bandung Conference Political Committee" (1955) and "Economic Development and Nonalignment" (1956) Julius Nyerere, "Ujamaa: The Basis of African Socialism" (1962)

Week XI: South Africa's Colonial Legacy Nov 9: Discussion: Clark & Worger, de Klerk, Mandela Nov 11: Discussion: Clark & Worger, de Klerk, Mandela Discussion Leaders JOHN M DEANE Reading: Nancy Clark & William Worger, South Africa: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid F.W. de Klerk, The Last Trek, A New Beginning, xv-xx, 1-33, 328-398 Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, 1-51, 393-544

Week XII: Internationalism after Imperialism Nov 16: Discussion: Mazower Nov 18: Discussion: Mazower Discussion Leaders LUKE PETE Reading: Mark Mazower, No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations UN declaration granting independence to colonial countries (1960)

Week XIII: Postcolonial Perspectives Nov 23: Discussion: Fanon, Ngugi Nov 25: Discussion: Fanon, Ngugi Discussion Leaders MELISSA NICK Reading: Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature

Week XIV: The Empire comes Home Nov 30: Discussion: Bailkin, Rushdie Dec 2: Discussion: Bailkin, Rushdie Discussion Leaders MELISSA RYAN Reading: Jordanna Bailkin, The Afterlife of Empire Salman Rushdie, "The New Empire within Britain" in Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 129-138

Week XV: Conclusion Dec 7: Review of course reading Dec 9: Final discussion Reading: Dietmar Rothermund, "From colonialism to neocolonialism?" in The Routledge Companion to Decolonization, 258-275 Martin Shipway, "The impact of decolonization" in Decolonization and its Impact, 232-239 Video: Visualizing Decolonization (2009) BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY DUE THURS 10 DEC, 5:00 PM

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