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106-042 Postcolonial Cultural Studies | |
Note | Formerly available as 106-261/361. Students who have completed 106-261/361 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Ken Gelder |
Prerequisites | Usually 25 points of first year English, see Prerequisites |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 1-hour lecture per week and nine 2-hour tutorials scheduled across the semester |
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 postcolonialism across a range of cultural texts and sites. Topics include: definitions of postcolonialism, the politics of identity and speaking positions, white ethnicity, globalisation, New Age environmentalisms and new primitivisms, museums and memorials, diasporic music and street styles, new regionalities, East and West entanglements, and the postcolonial avant garde. |
Assessment | Written work totalling 4000 words. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available. |
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