LFU:online

Knowledge about key concepts of postcolonial theories - e.g. orientalism, contrapuntal reading, hybridity, cultural difference, subalternity - and application of these concepts on concrete exemples (literature and film)

1. Introduction to context based literary theories (New Historicism, Discourse Analysis, Postcolonial Theories)

2. Development of postcolonial theories: predecessors and major exponents

3. Edward Said: "Orientalism" - "Culture and Imperialism"

4. Homi K. Bhabha: Cultural Difference - Third Space - Translation

5. Gayatri Ch. Spivak: Subalternity

6. Application of these concepts on texts and films in French, Spanish and Italian

Presentation by the course instructor; analysis of examples (teamwork); compulsory reading at home as a preparation for the individual sessions;

Written exam at the end of the winter term

will be announced at the beginning of the term