- Study Europe's internal forms of colonial/postcolonial relations and the perpetuation of colonial and imperialist standards in discourse, media and social relations.
- Learn to apply postcolonial analytical tools at cultural, social, and textual level.
- Develop skills in order to carry out research using textual, media and discourse analysis.
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Priority rules apply to this course. Make sure you register for this course before 11 November 12.00 noon to be considered for enrollment.
The following students are guaranteed a place:
- BA TCS or LAS;
- students who are registered for the minor Postcolonial Studies;
- pre-master’s students;
- exchange students.
Other students will be placed by means of random selection.
This seminar offers an exploration of postcolonial literatures, theory and other media in Europe, focused on issues such as borders, memory, identity, ethnicity, migration, nationalism, racism, xenophobia and the production, representation and perpetuation of otherness. The notion of Europe, and European identity will be analysed and deconstructed from a historical and critical postcolonial perspective engaging with the fields of postcolonial theory, gender studies, media studies, literary studies and European studies as well as political theory, sociology, religious studies, migration studies, visual studies and conflict studies. Seminar meetings will be led by several instructors -- including invited guest speakers -- who will approach the field from different disciplinary perspectives and research trajectories.
The course handbook is Postcolonial Transitions in Europe: Contexts, Practices and Politics (2015), edited by Sandra Ponzanesi and Gianmaria Colpani. The book can be bought at Savannah Bay (Telingstraat 13, Utrecht).
This course is the third course in the minor Postcolonial Studies, for more information about this minor see: http://students.uu.nl/en/node/351/postcolonial-studies.
LAS and TCS students who follow this course as part of the core curriculum of their major (hoofdrichting Postcolonial and Gender Studies) are required to complete one of the following compulsory preparation courses: Introduction to Gender Studies (blok 3), Gender, etniciteit en cultuurkritiek (blok 1) or Gender, Ethnicity and Cultural Critique (blok 1). See https://tcs.sites.uu.nl/ for more information.
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