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A range of literary, filmic and theoretical texts from Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East will be used to explore concepts of history, gender, race, colonialism, post-colonialism in the context of relevant theories and cultural production (literature, film). The course will examine how identities and communities are imagined and created through a sense of belonging in time and place, how culture is produced through inscription and documentation of individual and collective memories and imaginaries and how, through these, powerful narratives of gender, race and history emerge. Moreover, attention will be paid to how cultural production is informed by dominant discourses around authority, belonging, ‘othering’, exlusion/inclusion and nation. Parallelly, historical, socio-political and cultural transitions from empire through decolonisation processes to a global world order will be identified through the analysis of theory, literature and film included in the sessions. |
