Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Synopsis This subject provides students with an introduction to a specific, contemporary field of literary theory and, through the reading of fiction and poetry selected from the `new literatures in English', an opportunity to apply major theoretical frameworks. A study of the concept of `difference' and `the construction of the subject' will serve as a background to the distinctive ways these concepts are formulated in `post-colonial' theory. A discussion of colonial discourse analysis; `third world' and other typologies: concepts such as `writing back to the centre', `Orientalism' and `national allegory'; and an analysis of key contributions to the field by, for example, Said, Spivak, Rushdie, and Bhabha will be included in the subject.
Assessment One essay (6000 words): 70% + Seminar papers (3000 words in total): 30%