In this seminar students will familiarise with key concepts and theories in postcolonial studies. We will read and discuss texts dealing with e.g., migration, ethnicity, indigeneity, mimicry, hybridity, the Third Space, inter- and transculturality, and Orientalism – crucial issues that contribute to an understanding of today's globalising world.
Texts
Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures. London: Routledge, 2002. (2nd ed.)
A comprehensive reader with further material will be available at Kopiersysteme Priebe (Segerothstr.) at the beginning of the semester.
There will be a written exam in the final meeting.
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