Postgraduate Course: Neo-imperialisms (ENLI11137)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | According to Michel Agier, "the world today is confronted with the sustained evidence of precarious lives." This course will look at various ways in which life is made fragile and precarious by what might be called the newimperialisms of the contemporary globalized world - the war on terror and the reassertion of national boundaries; economic unevenness and resource extractivism; the legacies of race-thinking; and the climate emergency. |
| Course description |
1. Introduction
2. Stories from Iraq: Hassan Blasim, ¿The Reality and the Record¿ / extract from Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad / Phil Klay, ¿Money as a Weapons System¿
3. Mohsin Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
4. Ivan Vladislavic, Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked
5. Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
6. Australian asylum theatre: Karen Therese, Tribunal / Version 1.0, CMI (A Certain Maritime Incident) / Shahin Shafaei, Refugitive
7. Mahasweta Devi, ¿Pterodactyl, Puran Sahay, and Pirtha¿
8. Poems from the nuclear Pacific: Poems by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner & Craig Santos Perez
9. Petrofictions: Nawal El-Saadawi, Love in the Kingdom of Oil / Warren Cariou, ¿An Athabasca Story¿ / China Mieville, ¿Covehithe¿
10. Jeff Vander Meer, Annihilation
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2022/23, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 3 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
196 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
One 4,000 word essay (100% of the final mark). |
| Feedback |
Students will receive feedback on written work within 15 working days of submission. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Articulate (in written and oral forms) a considered, informed sense of the breadth and range of postcolonial writing, theory and contexts
- Evaluate a range of key concepts in postcolonial studies, particularly in terms of their relevance to current neo-imperial contexts and their application to the primary texts;
- Demonstrate the ability to work with interdisciplinary material in addition to literature and film, such as theoretical, historical and sociological sources
- Reflect constructively on good learning practice.
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Reading List
Some material will be available on the course learn page; students should ensure they also have access to the following:
Mohsin Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Ivan Vladislavic, Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked
Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
Nawal El-Saadawi, Love in the Kingdom of Oil
Jeff Vander Meer, Annihilation
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | NI |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr David Farrier
Tel: (0131 6)50 3607
Email: |
Course secretary | Miss Kara McCormack
Tel: (0131 6)50 3030
Email: |
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