Marxism and Cultural Studies

de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, 131-203

Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life (1984), xi-xxiv, 1-130
Brief essay due

This is the last stage of the term paper process prior to drafting the paper itself. At this point, you should turn in a bibliography of at least seven non-class texts and two class texts that you expect to use in your. These texts must be annotated more substantively than they were in the preliminary bibliography. Make use of these annotations to think seriously about how these texts connect to your argument, and how you’ll use them in your paper.

Dick Hebdige, Subculture (1979)
Term paper, stage four: Annotated bibliography due

Said, Culture and Imperialism, 191-336

Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (1993), xi-xxviii, 3-80

For this stage of the term paper assignment, you should turn in a revised project proposal, which should be approximately 2 pages, double-spaced, this time with a full statement of what you intend to accomplish in your paper, including (and this is the most important part) a clear sense of what your thesis will be. This is not to say, again, that things won’t change as you continue working, but it is to say that I want a very clear sense of the direction you’re heading.

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (1983), 1-65, 141-154, 163-185
Term paper, stage three: Revised project proposal due

Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
Brief essay due

As mentioned in your syllabus, each group is responsible for doing one in-class presentation designed to introduce us to that day’s reading and to guide our discussion of that reading. Your group assignments were made somewhat randomly (aside from attempting to create a kind of balance in the groups), and the group numbers were assigned purely alphabetically. Presentation dates have been assigned in group-number order, and thus, totally randomly. If these dates are absolutely impossible, you should let me know immediately.
Each member of each group should be responsible for part of the presentation; how you divide up that work is up to you, but everyone should speak. What the presentation looks like is likewise entirely up to you. The presentation should, however, take NO MORE THAN 15 minutes, and should lead into a well-facilitated and energetic discussion. We’ll spend some time this afternoon discussing how that might best be accomplished.
For now, presentation dates are as follows:
Group 1: October 20
Group 2: October 25
Group 3: November 1
Group 4: November 3
Group 5: November 15
Group 6: November 22
Group 7: November 29