Since the publication of Edward Said&#39;s Orientalism (1979) and the onset of the culture wars, history wars, and battles of identity politics at the end of the twentieth century, postcolonialism has ballooned as an academic field of study and as a cultural field of struggle. While many of the cultural debates incited by postcolonialism as an academic field and cultural practice are complex, this course introduces several key issues related to approachable texts: place, race, home, nation, culture, story, and history. This broad approach to the field will enable students to enter these debates on their own, drawing from and contributing to the subject&#39;s focus on central concerns of postcolonialism as they are related to colonial and postcolonial historical texts, contexts, and literary theory.

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To undertake this subject, students must have successfully completed 12 credit points (four subjects) of level 1 study at tertiary level

To undertake this subject, students must have successfully completed 12 credit points (four subjects) of level 1 study at tertiary level Offerings: All

Postcolonial Narratives: Writing, Place, and Identity

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EL3050 - Postcolonial Narratives: Writing, Place, and Identity

Sound command of some of the most influential critical practices in the field, and familiarity with the work of postcolonial critics working at the intersection of cultural and feminist studies

Detailed knowledge and understanding of the set texts

Awareness of issues of cultural difference and cultural identity, politics, history, and aesthetics, within the contested spaces of colonial and postcolonial inscription