This module is not currently running in 2024 to 2025.
This module involves a materialist analysis of the dynamics of colonialism, anticolonialism and postcolonialism. It explores places and people shaped by key modern historic processes, such as colonial conquest, dispossession, decolonization, postcolonial independence, partition, and migration. The module also examines connections between war, exclusion, territory and freedom, and it ruminates on processes of contradiction and negotiation, convergence and discord, clash and reconciliation in relation to political and personal conflict.
Total Contact Hours: 20
Assignment (5,000 words) – 100%
The University is committed to ensuring that core reading materials are in accessible electronic format in line with the Kent Inclusive Practices.
The most up to date reading list for each module can be found on the university's reading list pages: https://kent.rl.talis.com/index.html
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
The intended subject specific learning outcomes.
On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
1) Demonstrate a comprehensive and conceptual understanding of knowledge on, and a critical awareness on new insights of 'body and place' as a key concept in postcolonial texts;
2) Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of colonial and postcolonial contexts with critical awareness and application inclusive of theoretical, historical, political, cultural and geographical approaches;
3) Compare and analyse the ways in which body and place is read, written and constructed in a broad range of prose, poetry and film;
4) Explore the ways in which body and place are connected to broader questions of postcolonial identity and culture
5) Explore core concepts and themes such as multiple-mutable identities; experimentation with form and style; dislocation, displacement; diaspora, refugee, asylum seeker, exile; globalisation; migration, movement and borders; imaginative geography; trauma and mental health; nations and nationalism; literature, arts and activism;
6) Apply and interrogate relevant methodologies, including theoretical, (such as postcolonialism, spatiology, Marxism, feminism, ecocriticism), mythological and philosophical strategies appropriate to understanding postcolonial texts.
The intended generic learning outcomes.
On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
1) Demonstrate an ability to analyse postcolonial texts critically and make comparisons across a range of readings;
2) Demonstrate critical and argumentative skills necessary for participating in seminar discussions and giving oral presentations;
3) Demonstrate the skills to carry out independent research during presentations and essays;
4) Demonstrate the ability to critically evaluate and creatively deploy key philosophical, theoretical, historical, political and spatial perspectives;
5) Demonstrate the ability to construct original, innovative and complex arguments;
6) Demonstrate the ability to conduct interdisciplinary research by evaluating material from different sources;
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