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Global Literature and Postcolonialism (ENGL30006)
Undergraduate level 3Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
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- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
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Overview
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In this subject students examine examples of postcolonial literature, many of which also belong to the category of global literature. In addition to learning about the different cultural contexts from which the texts emerged, students learn about the different narrative techniques and styles that postcolonial writers use to address such important topics as slavery, interracial conflict and desire, cultural dispossession and disempowerment, racial discrimination, migration and exile, while also learning about theoretical concepts such as degeneration, Orientalism, nationalism, settler colonialism, neo-imperialism, transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, and globalisation.
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this subject, students should have:
- a deeper understanding of the importance of textual traditions in shaping responses to other places, peoples, culture;
- a knowledge and understanding of the social, political and cultural forces that have informed and shaped colonial, postcolonial and diasporic writing since the late-19 th century;
- develop a knowledge and appreciation of the subject matter, styles and narrative conventions used by colonial, postcolonial and diasporic writers, and how these writers have used the space of literature to comment on historical and contemporary social and moral issues; and
- gain and overview of key writers of postcolonial theory and their most significant concepts and critical insights.
Generic skills
On successful completion of this subject, students should gain the following generic skills:
- the ability to apply new research skills and critical methods to a field of inquiry;
- develop critical self-awareness and shape the capacity to persuasive arguments; and
- the ability to communicate arguments and ideas effectively and articulately, both in writing and to others.
Last updated: 11 April 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
670-321 Travel Writing and Postcolonialism
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 11 April 2024
Assessment
Additional details
- A class paper, 1000 words (20%), to be presented during the semester
- A 1500 word essay (40%), due mid-semester
- An essay of 1500 words (40%), due in the examination period
- Hurdle: This subject has a minimum hurdle requirement of 80% attendance and regular participation in tutorials. Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at 10% per day. In-class tasks missed without approval will not be marked. All pieces of written work must be submitted to pass this subject. No extension will be given on the take-home examination due in the examination period
Last updated: 11 April 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 2
Coordinator Anne Maxwell Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 30 hours: a 1 hour lecture and a 1.5 hour tutorial per week. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 29 July 2019 to 27 October 2019 Last self-enrol date 9 August 2019 Census date 31 August 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 27 September 2019 Assessment period ends 22 November 2019
Time commitment details
170 hours
Last updated: 11 April 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
A subject reader will be available.
- Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
- Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling
- Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys
- Things Fall Apart C Achebe
- Jazz T Morrison
- Disgrace J M Coetzee
- East-West Salman Rushdie
- On Beauty Z Smith
- A Small Place Jamaica Kincaid
- Subject notes
Students who have completed 106-033 Writing After Empire or 106-033/670-321 Colonial and Postcolonial Writing, or 106-229/673-344 Travel Writing and Travel Texts are not eligible to enrol in this subject.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Specialisation (formal) English and Theatre Studies Specialisation (formal) English and Theatre Studies Major English and Theatre Studies Breadth Track English - Breadth options
This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:
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- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 11 April 2024