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MA in Postcolonial Studies
Director: Dr Caroline Rooney
Location: Canterbury (with an optional term in Paris, click here for further information)
Attendance: One year full-time,two years part-time
Entry requirements: A first or upper-second class honours degree in a relevant subject (or equivalent). Click here for further information on English language requirements for non-native speakers of English.
Assessment: Assessment is by a 5-6,000-word essay for each module, and a 12-15,000-word dissertation.
Course Outline
The University of Kent was one of the first universities to establish postcolonial literary studies in Britain and has continued to play a significant part in the development of the field. The Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies has a lively graduate community, and promotes research through international conferences, national colloquia, visiting speakers and a regular graduate research seminar. It also hosts a visiting writer from India every year in association with the Charles Wallace Trust.
Among the teachers involved in the MA and the Centre are Abdulrazak Gurnah, Caroline Rooney, Alex Padamsee, and Donna Landry (see staff research interests on pXXX for further details).
The MA in Postcolonial Studies develops your understanding of the politics of culture in relation to both the imperialist world’s interpretation of the colonial, and postcolonial assertions of autonomy. In this context, while ‘postcolonial’ refers primarily to societies of the so-called ‘Third World’, it also includes questions relevant to cultures such as those of Ireland and Australia, and to contemporary and historical issues of diaspora, migration and cultural hybridity in Britain, Europe and America.
Course structure
Faculty and School Research Methods Programmes, EN852 and two or more subject options.
Core Module
Additional modules
Options drawn from the MA in English and American Literature