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  5. Problematics in Modern Languages and Cultures

Problematics in Modern Languages and Cultures

Objectives

To acquire advanced theoretical knowledge on Postcolonial Studies (postcolonial in the sense ascribed by Elleke Boehmer)
To acquire knowledge on British / Anglophone Postcolonial Literature
To foster interdisciplinary critical debate on the subjects to be studied and to relate them to current issues
To promote in depth research on the subjects to be studied and to relate them with current issues
To be able to write an extended advanced research paper by applying what has been learned in class

General characterization

Code

73216113

Credits

10.0

Responsible teacher

Rogério Miguel do Deserto Rodrigues de Puga

Hours

Weekly - 2

Total - 280

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

Available soon

Bibliography

Abu-Manneh, B. (Ed.) (2019). After Said. Postcolonial Literay Studies in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge: CUP.
Bhabha, H. K. (1994). The Location of Culture. London: Routledge.
Boehmer, E. (2005). Colonial and Postcolonial Literature. Oxford: OUP.
Bucknor, M. A. and A.D. (Eds.) (2014). The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature. London: Routledge.
Coelho, T.P. (2004). Ilhas, Batalhas e Aventura. Lisboa: Colibri.
Coelho, T.P. (2019). "Robinsonaden in the Feminine? Coetzee´s Foe and Muriel Spark´s Robinson", in S. Kossew and M.Harvey (Eds.). Reading Coetzee´s Women. Switzerland. Palgrave Macmillan, pp.129-47.
Matias, D.F.M. (2017). "Wooden Man"? Masculinities in the Work of J.M.Coetzee (Boyhood, Youth, Summertime). New York: Peter Lang.
Said, E. (1993). Culture and Imperialism. London: Chatto & Windus.
Said, E. (1978). Orientalism. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Spivak, G., 'Three Women´s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism',Critical Inquiry: Autumn 1985, 12 (1), 243-261.

Teaching method

Theoretical classes - 40 %
Practical classes - 60 %

Evaluation method

Evaluation Methodologies - Presentation and discussion in class of a research paper(50%), Written advanced research project to be handed out by the end of the semester(50%)

Subject matter

I - Postcolonial Studies: the debate
1.1. Edward Said: Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism
1.2. Critics of Said´s theories
II - Postcolonial theory and literature: rereading 'canonical' texts
2.1. Mimicry and subversion in Robinson Crusoe
2.2. Robinson Crusoe reread by Coetzee: 'He and His Man' and 'Robinson Crusoe' (in Stanger Shores)
2.3. The feminine voice and Otherness in Jane Eyre
2.4. 'Youth' and 'An Outpost of Progress' (Conrad)
IV - Post-colonial 're-writings': Youth (Coetzee) and Ultimatum (Landeg White)
V - Anglophone Caribbean literature: Sam Selvon and V.S.Naipaul