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135054 PS Sozialgesch. der Literatur (PS): Postcolonial Con-Texts: Writing Back to the Canon (2020S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Europäische und Vergleichende Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Montag 09.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Montag 16.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Montag 23.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Montag 30.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Montag 20.04. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Montag 27.04. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Montag 04.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Montag 11.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Montag 18.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Montag 25.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Montag 08.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Montag 15.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Montag 22.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
  • Montag 29.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG

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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

The re-reading and re-writing of the English “classic” texts in the 20th century became a way for the formerly colonized to resist or challenge a Eurocentric vision of the world that represented colonized peoples and cultures as marginal, inferior and dependent on the European cultures. This “writing back”, “counter-discourse” or “con-texts” contest the authority of the English canon as well as the whole discursive field within which these texts operated and continue to operate in the postcolonial world. It involves the abrogation of the imperial centre within the text and the active appropriation of the language and culture of that centre. Hence, dominated literatures are characterized by subversion, hybridity and syncreticity: the language and culture of the colonizer are appropriated and used against the colonizer as an instrument of subversion and resistance to assert the value of own culture and identity.
Over the last 30 years, the study of postcolonial rewritings of the English canon has attracted considerable attention. This course will focus on the most famous examples, attempting to survey some of the distinctive characteristics of such writing.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Final essay, 3500 words

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

• identify, analyse and understand key philosophical, historical, social and aesthetic issues of postcolonial literature
• analyse key postcolonial works in terms of their social, historical, philosophical, and aesthetic significance
• apply close reading skills to a variety of literary texts
• reflect critically on the relations between primary texts and relevant secondary texts
• discriminate between ideas and justify personal positions
• produce well-structured, relevant arguments with an appropriate intellectual framework

Prüfungsstoff

Essay topics will be given mid-semester. All topics reflect course readings.

Literatur

Primary:
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (1958) and “Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness” (1977)
Charlotte Brönte, Jane Eyre (1847)
Aimé Césaire, Une Tempête (1968)
J. M. Coetzee, Foe (1986)
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899)
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719)
William Shakespeare, The Tempest (1610-1611)
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)

Secondary:
Ashcroft, Bill et. al., The Empire Writes Back. Routledge, 1989, 2002.
McLeod, John. Beginning Postcolonialism. Manchester University Press, 2000.
Tiffin, Helen. “Post-Colonial Literatures and Counter-Discourse.” Kunapipi 9(3), 1987)
Said, Edward. Orientalism. London: Keegan & Paul, 1978.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

BA M5

Letzte Änderung: Do 04.07.2024 00:13