School Of Humanities And Communication ArtsLiteratures of DecolonisationWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 101966.1
Discipline: LITERATURE
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 3
Credit Points: 10
Unit Enrolment Restrictions
Successful completion of 60 credit points of study in currently enrolled course.
About this Unit
In 2018 this unit replaced by 102572 - Literature and Decolonisation. Do you know why nearly a hundred new nations were founded between 1945 and 1970? Have you ever wondered who Mahatma Gandhi or Ho Chi Minh were? Why would you challenge authority 'non-violently'? How do you write creatively in a language that has been imposed through colonial conquest? These are all questions connected to decolonisation: the explosive process by which great modern European empires dissolved after World War II forming scores of new nations - from Indonesia to Algeria, India to Nigeria, Jamaica to Vietnam. With this came a surge of creative energy, as formerly colonised peoples set out to produce new ways of writing and thinking. We will read classic anti-colonial politicians like Gandhi and Frantz Fanon and writers from different decolonising regions such as India, Africa, South-East Asia, the Caribbean, the Middle East and Australia.
Specialisations
| M1035.1 | English, Text and Writing | CONTINUING |
| SM1044.1 | English, Text and Writing | CONTINUING |