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Postcolonial Narrations of Modernity
DozentIn: Kathleen Samson, M.A.
Veranstaltungstyp: Seminar
Ort: 41/E02: Donnerstag, 15.06.2023, Montag, 26.06.2023, Montag, 03.07.2023, Montag, 10.07.2023 10:00 - 12:00, 02/E03: Montag, 26.06.2023, Montag, 03.07.2023, Montag, 10.07.2023 12:00 - 14:00, 22/105: Dienstag, 27.06.2023, Dienstag, 04.07.2023, Dienstag, 11.07.2023 10:00 - 12:00, 41/E08: Dienstag, 27.06.2023, Dienstag, 04.07.2023, Dienstag, 11.07.2023 12:00 - 14:00, 11/116: Donnerstag, 06.07.2023 10:00 - 12:00
Zeiten: Termine am Donnerstag, 15.06.2023, Montag, 26.06.2023 10:00 - 12:00, Montag, 26.06.2023 12:00 - 14:00, Dienstag, 27.06.2023 10:00 - 12:00, Dienstag, 27.06.2023 12:00 - 14:00, Montag, 03.07.2023 10:00 - 12:00, Montag, 03.07.2023 12:00 - 14:00, Dienstag, 04.07.2023 10:00 - 12:00, Dienstag, 04.07.2023 12:00 - 14:00, Donnerstag, 06.07.2023, Montag, 10.07.2023 10:00 - 12:00, Montag, 10.07.2023 12:00 - 14:00, Dienstag, 11.07.2023 10:00 - 12:00, Dienstag, 11.07.2023 12:00 - 14:00, Ort: 22/105, 41/E08, 11/116
Beschreibung: Modernity as world-making project declares its universal applicability and desirability while simultaneously relying on exploitations and exclusions. Postcolonial writers and thinkers have long grappled with and sought to trouble modernity’s meanings beyond Europe. This block seminar offers an overview of this thought and literature, asking: what is the relation between colonialism and modernity? How do postcolonial writers negotiate the encounter with modernity? How do they portray the violence, entanglements, and contradictions of such encounters? We will take the African continent as a focal point for the fiction we read, while drawing on theory from the varied field of postcolonial thought.
In doing so, the block seminar addresses how the period of (British) colonialism and independence are formative for literary, cultural and political developments in the Anglophone world, thereby attending to the increasing diversity of the modern Anglophone literary space in the 20th and 21st Centuries. The seminar aims to develop critical literacy and analytical skills, to enable readers to ask of texts: what intervention into what discursive context is a text or writer trying to make? And conversely, what kinds of interventions into what contexts do we want to make when we draw on these texts?
