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106-261 Postcolonial Cultural Studies | |
Note | Available as 106-361 at 3rd-year level. |
Availability | Not offered in 1998. |
Credit Points | 16.7 2nd and 3rd year |
Coordinator | Ken Gelder |
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.
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