Caring, Teaching, Knowing: Spivak, Coetzee and the Practice of Postcolonial Pedagogies

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1 Colin MacCabe, ‘Foreword’, in In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (New York: Routledge, 1988), p.xviii. 2 Donna Landry and Gerald Maclean, ‘Introduction: Reading Spivak’, in The Spivak Reader, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, eds Landry and Maclean (New York: Routledge, 1996), p.7. 3 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, ‘“Draupadi” by Mahasweta Devi’[1981], in In Other Worlds, p.180. 4 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, ‘Explanation and Culture: Marginalia’[1979], in In Other Worlds, p.103. 5 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, ‘Finding Feminist Readings: Dante – Yeats’[1980], in In Other Worlds p.15. 6 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of a Vanishing Present (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999), p.183. 7 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, ‘Ethics and Politics in Tagore, Coetzee, and Certain Scenes of Teaching’, Diacritics, 32.3–4 (2002), pp.18–19. 8 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, ‘Ethics and Politics’, p.25. 9 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, ‘Ethics and Politics’, pp.25–26. 10 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, ‘Ethics and Politics’, p.27. 11 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, ‘Ethics and Politics’, p.29. 12 Peter Randall, personal correspondence (11 May 2006). 13 J.M. Coetzee, Dusklands (Johannesburg: Ravan, 1974). 14 J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace (London: Secker & Warburg, 1999), p.9. 15 J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace, p.38 and12. 16 J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace, p.4. 17 J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace, p.146. 18 J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace, pp.218–219. 19 J.M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello (London: Secker & Warburg, 2003), p.154. 20 J.M. Coetzee, Age of Iron (London: Secker & Warburg, 1990), p.20. 21 J.M. Coetzee, Slow Man (London: Secker & Warburg, 2005), p.44. 22 Michel Foucault, The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France 1981–1982, ed. Frédéric Gros, trans. Graham Burchell (New York: Picador, 2005), p.50, 58, 221, 347 and 432; Michel Foucault, The Care of the Self: Volume 3 of The History of Sexuality, trans. Robert Hurley (New York: Vintage, 1988), pp.189–232. 23 Michel Foucault, Hermeneutics, p.14, 76, 9, 178, 84 and 11. 24 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, ‘A Literary Representation of the Subaltern: A Woman's Text from the Third World’[1987], in In Other Worlds, p.241. 25 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Outside in the Teaching Machine (New York: Routledge, 1993), pp.39–40, 25–26 and 48. 26 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Thinking Academic Freedom in Gendered Post-Coloniality (Cape Town: University of Cape Town, 1992), p.7, 21, 1, 12 and 17. 27 Michel Foucault, ‘The Ethic of Care for the Self as a Practice of Freedom’, in The Final Foucault, eds James Bernauer and David Rasmussen (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988), pp.1–20, cited in Spivak, Thinking Academic Freedom, p.10. 28 USAID, Partnership to Transform South African Education: American Support 1986–2009: Executive Summary (Johannesburg: 2009), p.5. 29 Department of Basic Education, Report of the Task Team for the Review of the Implementation of the National Curriculum Statement (Pretoria: 2009). 30 Michel Foucault, Hermeneutics, p. 94. 31 Statement by the Minister of Basic Education, Mrs Angie Motshekga, MP on the progress of the review of the National Curriculum Statement (6 July 2010), < http://www.education.gov.za/dynamic/dynamic.aspx?pageid = 310&id = 10245> [15 January 2011]. 32 State of the Nation Address by His Excellency J.G. Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa, at the Joint Sitting of Parliament (11 February 2010), < http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2010/10021119051001.htm> [15 January 2011]. 33 Department of Basic Education, Delivery Agreement for Outcome 1: Improved Quality of Basic Education (2010), p.4. 34 Equal Education, Equal Education Annual Report 2009 (2010), p.3. 35 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, ‘Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography’[1985], in In Other Worlds, pp.197–221 (p.211). 36 Doron Isaacs, ‘Education without Content: OBE was as Bad in Theory as in Practice’, Cape Times (22 July 2010), p.9. 37 Doron Isaacs, ‘Education without Content’, p.9. 38 An exposition of this understanding of habitus and hexis is given in Pierre Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977), pp.72–95. 39 Doron Isaacs, ‘Education without Content’, p.9. 40 Equal Education, Annual Report, p.3 and 8. 41 Michel Foucault, Hermeneutics, p.134, 57 and 117.