Postgraduate Course: Gender and History in Postcolonial Space: Aspects of Canadian-English Textuality (ENLI11011)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | English Literature |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course will examine literary strategies devised by Canadian writers facing invasive pressures and cultural dominance firstly from Britain's imperial hegemony and subsequently from the United States' globalising commercial empire. Women's writing is a recognised Canadian strength, where textual representations of gendered resistance to colonising patriarchy articulate North American alterities. Together with the politics of representation the course will examine literary strategies developed by a fragile culture negotiating complex internal differences, and will consider issues of ethnicity, marginalisation and gender construction. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Purchase of essential texts as required. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| Students enrolled on the course will acquire enhanced knowledge of literary strategies devised by Canadian writers facing invasive pressures and cultural dominance firstly from Britain's imperial hegemony and subsequently from the United States' globalising commercial empire. They will gain knowledge of Canadian women's writing and the literary strategies used for the textual representations of gendered resistance to colonising patriarchy and the different ways in which these women writers articulate North American alterities. Students will further gain knowledge of the politics of Canadian cultural representation and will additionaly develop strategies of reading appropriate for a fragile culture negotiating complex internal differences. Knowledge will also be acquired concerning the Candian contours for issues of ethnicity, marginalisation and gender construction. |
Assessment Information
| One essay of 4,000 words. |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Colin Nicholson
Tel: (0131 6)50 3614
Email: C.Nicholson@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms June Haigh
Tel: (0131 6)50 3612
Email: j.haigh@ed.ac.uk |
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