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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures : English Literature

Postgraduate Course: Postcolonial Pacific Writing (ENLI11062)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Literatures, Languages and Cultures CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
Summary This course will explore a range of colonial and postcolonial writing of the Pacific region. We will begin by considering Euro-American discursive representations of Pacific peoples, focusing in particular on the Pacific writings of Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London, before examining a variety of poetry and prose by indigenous writers of the Pacific region. Particular areas of interest will include the following: dominant tropes in Euro-American discursive representations of Pacific Islanders since the late eighteenth century; representations of the 'Polynesian body' in literature, film and advertising; the impact of colonialism and neo-colonialism upon the indigenous cultures and literatures of the South Pacific; gender and sexuality in Pacific writing; and the relationship between 'oral' and 'written' modes of expression in indigenous Pacific writing.




Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
Students will learn to analyse selected texts within both 'global' and 'local' cultural and theoretical frameworks, investigating ways in which Pacific writing and criticism intersect with international postcolonial writing and theory. They will be able to evaluate how these texts are inflected by the unique cultural politics of the Pacific region.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Additional Class Delivery Information 1 hour(s) per week for 10 week(s).
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserProf Michelle Keown
Tel: (0131 6)50 6856
Email: michelle.keown@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs June Cahongo
Tel: (0131 6)50 3620
Email: J.Cahongo@ed.ac.uk
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