Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
This
course aims to serve as an intensive study of major scholars in postcolonial
theory and authors in colonial and postcolonial literature. Through lecture,
discussion, research, and writing, students will practice applying postcolonial
theory to works of literature. The course aims to establish some of the
important concepts in the study of postcolonial literature, discuss colonialism,
call attention to major research tools, and exemplify the interplay between the
colonialist and the colonized. The course will focus on the conceptual work
that postcolonial thinking allows in relation to historical periodizing logic,
on the relation of postcolonial to comparable designations such as third world,
transnational, global and neoliberal. We will ponder the usefulness of notions
of mimicry, hybridity, orientalism, resistance, and migrancy in understanding
postcolonial subjectivity. The intersections of these categories with the
broader conceptual categories of race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation
will be a critical area of inquiry.