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9574 - Introduction to Postcolonial Theory- This course introduces students to postcolonial theory as an academic discipline that re-examines the history and legacy of colonialism and its impact on cultural representations and the formation and institutionalization of knowledge. We will study the major authors now associated with the rise of postcolonial theory (including Homi Bhabha, Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak); new domains of cultural analysis developed in its name (colonial discourse analysis, internal colonialisms, feminist postcolonialisms, subaltern studies) and in relation to its insights (theories of diaspora, cultural hybridity, transculturation); critiques of its analysis; and speculations about its future. Given our own location in Canada, we will also address the vexed relations among theories of settler colonialism, indigenous theorizing and postcolonialism.
