Reading the `post-colonial': text and theory
Mary Griffiths
12 points
*.2 hours per week (seminar)
* First semester
*
Gippsland
* Prerequisites: First degree with a major in English or related
discipline(s)
Objectives This subject introduces students to, or furthers their knowledge of new literatures in English; contextualises and problematises ways of conceptualising the `other' in dominant versions of post-colonial theory, within wider considerations of current cultural and media theory dealing with intercultural relations; and gives students a choice of reading frameworks for the analysis of new literatures in English and other media forms.
Synopsis This subject provides students with an introduction to a specific, contemporary field of literary and cultural theory and, through the reading of fiction, film 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%
Prescribed texts
To be advised
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