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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : English

106-261/361 Postcolonial Cultural Studies

Credit Points:

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator:

Ken Gelder

Timetable:

Semester 2

Contact:

One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week

Subject Description:

Is Australia postcolonial? What does it mean to claim a postcolonial identity? This interdisciplinary subject will enable students to understand important debates relating to the phenomenon of post-colonialism across a range of cultural texts and institutional sites. Topics include: definitions of post-colonialism, the politics of identity and speaking positions, white ethnicity, globalisation, New Age environmentalisms and new primitivisms, museums and memorials, indigenous tourism, diasporic music and street styles, post-colonialism and policy, and the postcolonial avant garde.

Assessment:

Written work of not more than 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts:

Course reader available from the department.

  • Films:, The Joy Luck Club
  • , Bedevil
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