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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. |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Ken Gelder |
Prerequisites | Usually 25 points of first year English, see Prerequisites. |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 1-hour lecture per week and nine 2-hour tutorials scheduled across the semester |
Subject Description | This interdisciplinary subject will enable students to engage with 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 repatriation, diasporic music and street styles, new regionalities, East and West entanglements, and postcolonial television. On successful completion of the subject students should have an understanding of theoretical approaches to postcolonial forms and a knowledge of how to apply these to the analysis of cultural texts, and of the politics at work in particular postcolonial sites. |
Assessment | Class participation, and written work totalling 4000 words. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available.
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