Universität Wien

120058 PS Literature: Proseminar = Introductory Seminar (2010W)

Introducing and Applying Postcolonial Theory

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 24 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Dienstag 12.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 19.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 09.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 16.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 23.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 30.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 07.12. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 14.12. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 11.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 18.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 25.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

This course will introduce students to the works of francophone (post)colonial thinkers such as Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, and Achille Mbembe who share a deep interest in the nature and psychological effects of colonial violence on the body-soul of the colonised. In particular, we will investigate the inner splits and different temporalities caused by traumatising events. Students will learn to apply theoretical concepts to contemporary South African novels but also to non-fictional post-apartheid texts and will examine how different narratives try to scrutinise the psyche of the perpetrator, notions of complicity, and the effects of violence that reveal themselves only through paradoxical symptoms, at the interstices between the ‘body in pain’ and its related silences.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Active participation in class; regular assignments; short mid-term paper; oral presentation; final written test.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Students will become acquainted with major works of the earliest postcolonial thinkers, historical and social issues of apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa, and with a variety of texts dealing with the effects of (post)colonial violence from a phenomenogical and psychological point of view.

Prüfungsstoff

Small-group and all-class discussions of literary and theoretical texts. Introduction to the analysis of fiction and the contextualisation of different texts.

Literatur

Students are expected to read the following texts: Aimé Césaire: Discourse on Colonialism; Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela: A Human Being Died that Night; Bessie Head: A Question of Power; Mongane Wally Serote: To Every Birth Its Blood.
A Reader with articles and extracts from other theoretical texts will be provided at the beginning of the semester.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Studium: Diplom 343, UF 344, BA 612;
Code/Modul: 304, 501, 701, BA11, BA13;
Lehrinhalt: 12-0297

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:33