School Of Humanities And Communication ArtsStudies in Postcolonial LiteratureWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 101869.1
Discipline: LITERATURE
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 2
Credit Points: 10
Assumed Knowledge
An idea of the genre of the English novel and a history of imperialismn.
Unit Enrolment Restrictions
Successful completion of 40 credit points of study in currently enrolled course.
About this Unit
In 2017 this unit replaced by 102434 - Postcolonial Literatures: Partition, Dependence and Exile. This unit focuses on Postcolonial Studies, which has been one of the most important literary and theoretical movements that makes meaning of colonial discourse theory and offers a stringent critique of it at the same time. The field offers ways of understanding literature, culture and society in modern postcolonial nations in Asia and Africa after the collapse of colonial rule. Simultaneously it also affords a re-visioning of the central tenets of Eurocentric thinking that were used to colonise third world nations and thus is a vital mode and methodology for understanding contemporary society. This particular unit will look at models and examples of African postcolonialism from early to late 20th century.
Specialisations
| M1035.1 | English, Text and Writing | CONTINUING |
| SM1044.1 | English, Text and Writing | CONTINUING |