32213
Graduate Course
SoSe 17: Literature and Post/De-coloniality
Kathy-Ann Tan
Comments
In this seminar, students will first be acquainted with the key concepts and terminologies used in post- and de-colonial theory that analyze the cultural legacies of colonialism and imperialism on contemporary formations of individual/collective identity and cultural belonging. In particular, we will focus on the theoretical writings of, among others, Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Leela Gandhi, Meenakshi Mukherjee, Homi Bhabh, Stuart Hall and Audre Lorde, examining the key concepts of hybridity, mimicry, ambivalence, alterity, “otherness”, diaspora, orientalism and the subaltern in their critical contexts. Subsequently, we will use these theories as a conceptual framework to explore how the issues of home and belonging, migration and exile, diaspora, place/displacement, citizenship, the body, gender, class, race and ethnicity are broached in selected works of literature. In the last few sessions, we will also question the limits of post-colonial discourse. By the end of the seminar, students will have grasped a nuanced understanding of the material and epistemological conditions of postcoloniality, as well as of how cultural and collective identities are explored, (re-)negotiated and mapped out in/through literary texts. close
13 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Thu, 2017-04-20 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-04-27 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-05-04 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-05-11 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-05-18 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-06-01 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-06-08 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-06-15 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-06-22 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-06-29 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-07-06 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-07-13 10:00 - 12:00
Thu, 2017-07-20 10:00 - 12:00