Critical Island Studies Syllabi
Literature & Ideas III: Imperial and Postcolonial Nesology
Nesology is a new interdisciplinary field consisting in “studies of the island-form or of islands and islandness.” This class explores Nesology’s creative approaches to historical, contemporary, and natural phenomena particular to islandic/archipelagic societies like the Philippines, focusing on the history and cultures of Philippine/Filipino-American postcoloniality and American imperial formations. The concept of “island-forms” furnishes us flexible frameworks for examining US empire-building and Filipino/other postcolonial formations in comparative perspective; we compare our experiences of US “insular imperialism,” and resistance to it, with those of former and current American island territories like Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, and Belau [this is one possible approach; other topical possibilities pertinent to the students’ own intellectual interests are encouraged in the course].
Archipleagic Critical Theory
Forthcoming
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