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EL3050 - Postcolonial Narratives: Writing, Place, and Identity
Credit points: |
3 |
Year: |
2021 |
Student Contribution Band: |
Band
1 |
Administered by: |
College of Arts, Society & Education |
Since the publication of Edward Said'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's focus on central concerns of postcolonialism
as they are related to colonial and postcolonial historical texts, contexts, and literary
theory.
Learning Outcomes
- awareness of issues of cultural difference and cultural identity, politics, history,
and aesthetics, within the contested spaces of colonial and postcolonial inscription;
- 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.
Subject Assessment
- Written > Essay (including multi-draft) 1 - (30%) - Individual
- Written > Annotated bibliography - (25%) - Individual
- Written > Journal - (25%) - Individual
- Participation > Online participation - (20%) - Individual.
Assumed Knowledge:
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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
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Inadmissible Subject Combinations:
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EL2050 |
Availabilities
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Study Period 1,
External
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Census Date 25-Mar-2021 |
Coord/Lect: |
Assoc. Professor Victoria Kuttainen. |
Workload expectations: |
The student workload for this
3
credit point subject is approximately
130 hours.
- 20 hours - Online Activities
- 13 hours online content
- assessment and self-directed study
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Method of Delivery: |
WWW - LearnJCU |
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Note:
Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process,
and in case
of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest
official information.