Post-colonialisms, Identities and Cultural Citizenship

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 and consolidated 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)

No

Syllabus

Module 1: Discourses and Representations (Edward Said, Gayatry Spivak)

Module 2: Postcolonialism and Identities (Frantz Fanon, Homi Bhabha, Boaventura de Sousa Santos)

Module 3: Transit and Diasporas (Paul Gilroy, James Clifford, Stuart Hall, David Chariandy)

Module 4: 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
Periodic or by final exam as given in the course information: 100.0%

Bibliography

Bhaba, Homi K. (1994), The Location of Culture. London: Routledge.

Bhambra, Gurminder K. (2007), Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination. Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Lazarus, N. (org.) (2004), The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.

Loomba, Ania et al. (org.) (2005), Postcolonial Studies and Beyond. Durham: Duke UP.

McLeod, J. (org.) (2007), The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial Studies. London: Routledge.

Sanches, Manuela Ribeiro (org.) (2011), Malhas que os impérios tecem. Textos anticoloniais, contextos pós-coloniais. Lisboa: Edições 70.

Santos, B. S. (2006), A gramática do tempo: para uma nova cultura política. Porto: Afrontamento.

Santos, B. S.; Meneses, M. P. (orgs.) (2009), Epistemologias do Sul. Coimbra: Almedina.

Spivak, G. (1999), A Critique of Postcolonial Reason. Cambridge, MA / London: Harvard UP.

Young, Robert J.C. (2003), Postcolonialism. A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford UP.