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Post-Colonialism and Europe
Course code: ELCS6059
Tutor: Dr J Mitchinson
Level: Intermediate
Mode of Assessment: 2 assessed essays of 2000 words each
Term: taught in term 1
Course Description:
This course provides an introduction to the critical theory of post-colonialism, testing the theory against a range of European contexts. In particular, the notion of post-colonialism is problematised by considering both colonies of Europe in different historical periods and by considering a number of territories within Europe as ‘colonised’ rather than ‘coloniser’. In the first six weeks of the course, each weekly seminar focuses on close reading of key critical-theoretical texts. Weeks Seven and Eight focus the practical application of post-colonial theory to literature and to other fields. Weeks Nine and Ten focus on the issue of ‘colonies’ within Europe, and the concept of ‘internal colonialism’.
Primary Texts:
- Bhabha, Homi K., The Location of Culture (London: Routledge, 1994)
- Fanon, Frantz, Black Skin, White Masks (1967, originally published 1952 as Peau noire, masques blancs)
- Said, Edward (1978 or later editions), Orientalism. Western Conceptions of the Orient. (London: Penguin)
- Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing Present (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999)
Initial Secondary Bibliography:
- Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, eds., The Postcolonial Studies Reader. 2nd Edition (London: Routledge, 1995)
- Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, eds., The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures. 2nd Edition. (London: Routledge, 2001)
- Huddart, David, Homi K. Bhabha (Routledge Critical Thinkers) (London: Routledge, 2006)
- Minnerup, Günter and Pia Solberg, eds., First World, First Nations: Internal Colonialism and Indigenous Self-Determination in Northern Europe and Australia (Eastbourne: Sussex University Press, 2011)
- Spivak,Gayatri Chakravorty, Donna Landry, and Gerald M. MacLean, eds.,The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (London: Routledge, 1996)
