106-042 Postcolonial Cultural Studies

Fifty points of first year arts including at least 25 points from a specified list of subject areas, see Prerequisites.

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.