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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : History

131-208/308 Saracens, Heathens, Cannibals and Savages: Colonising discourses in the self-fashioning of Christendom/Europe/the West

Credit Points:

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator:

Dr P Wolfe

Timetable:

Semester 2

Contact:

Three hours of lecture and tutorial time per week

Subject Description:

This subject examines different ways in which the historical subject known first as Christendom then as Europe now as 'the West' has constructed itself through representations of and discourses on foreigners. Relationships between these representational practices and the maintenance of colonial and 'post' colonial domination will be explored. By the end of the subject, students should be able to identity and situate some of the major Western discourses on racial, cultural and evolutionary difference.

Assessment:

Attendance and presentation at tutorials (10%), written work not exceeding 5000 words (90%).

Prescribed Texts:

Subject reader available from the History Department.

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