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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : English

106-447 Colonial Cultural Studies

Availability:

Not offered in 1997.

Credit Points:

16.7 4th year

Coordinator:

Anne Maxwell

Contact:

One 2-hour seminar per week.

Content:

This subject examines a number of different sites of colonial cultural production located within the imperial centre and the colonies themselves. The aim is to demonstrate the plurality of colonialism's culture by examining a number of written and visual practices which include the exhibitionary complex, anthropology, travel writing, photography, tourist postcards, film and fiction.

Assessment:

Written work of not more than 6000 words.

Prescribed Texts:

Course reader available from the department.

  • M Pratt M, Imperial Eyes, Routledge.
  • D Spurr D, The Rhetoric of Empire, Duke.
  • A Stephens N Thomas and R Gibson, Pirating the Pacific, Powerhouse Museum.
  • R L Stevenson, The Beach of Falsea, Edinburgh.
  • N Thomas, Colonialism's Culture, Princeton.
  • R Young, Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race, Routledge.
  • Films: Costner, Rapa-Nui
  • Flagherty M, Moana of the South Seas
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