Post-colonialisms, Identities and Cultural Citizenship
1
2013-2014
01637660
Cultural Studies
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
10.0
Compulsory
3rd Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
Students should have solid training in their area of expertise and should, additionally, have enough references of a transversal character that allow them to follow a transdisciplinary programme. They should also possess a command of the English language that enables them to read texts of a high level of complexity (level C1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).
Teaching Methods
The curricular unit will function in the form of a research seminar. A detailed syllabus will be provided at the beginning of the semester and will include a full description of the way of functioning of the seminar together with a complete list of topics and texts to be dealt with in class. The texts chosen for discussion will be presented by one of the students, after which a debate will follow. The teacher will provide a synthesis of the central topics on a regular basis.
Learning Outcomes
The curricular unit aims at an in-depth introduction to postcolonial theories through a revisitation of references which have become classic and the approach to relevant contributions for a critical questioning of central topics in the field. At the end of the semester, the student should have enriched his/her horizon of references and have acquired a broad perspective of the field that enables him/her to attend thematic seminars and to consolidate his/her individual research project.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
Module 1: Discourses and Representations (Edward Said)
Module 2: Postcolonialism and Identities (Frantz Fanon, Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Boaventura de Sousa Santos)
Module 3: Transit and Diasporas (Paul Gilroy, James Clifford, Stuart Hall, David Chariandy)
Module4: Borders, hybridisation, translation, interculturality, cultural citizenship (Walter Mignolo, David Theo Goldberg, António Sousa Ribeiro, Michaela Wolf)
Head Lecturer(s)
António Joaquim Coelho de Sousa Ribeiro
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Regular attendance (at least 75 %) and participation in class (10%) Oral presentation of one texts in the syllabus (20%) Final research essay on a topic relevant for overall thematics of the seminar (70%): 100.0%
Bibliography
Bhaba, Homi K. (1994), The Location of Culture. London and New York: Routledge.
McLeod, John (org.) (2007), The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial Studies. London and New York: Routledge.
Loomba, Ania et al. (org.) (2005), Postcolonial Studies and Beyond. Durham / London: Duke University Press.
Santos, Boaventura de Sousa; Meneses, Maria Paula (orgs.) (2009), Epistemologias do Sul. Coimbra: Almedina.
Young, Robert J.C. (2003), Postcolonialism. A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.