Ethnography in Transit Colloquium: "Reorienting the Ethnographic Gaze: A Literary Perspective"

Facilitated by Valerie Orlando (School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) and Michele Mason (School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)

Readings:

Reading Colonial Japan: Text, Context, and Critique, ed. Michele M. Mason and Helen J.S. Lee (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2012). "Introduction" "Demon Bird," Sato Haruo, 1923 "Violence, Borders, Identity: An Ethnographic Narrative Set in Colonial Taiwan, Robert Tierney

Anne McClintock's Imperial Leather: Race Gender and Sexuality in the Imperial Contest (NY: Routledge, 1995) pp. 1-131

Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism, (NY: Knopf, 1993) pp. 1-43

For additional events in this series, see http://www.english.umd.edu/ethnography.