COURSE DESCRIPTION

The course offers a comparative perspective on postcolonialism and postcommunism against the epistemic background of late modernity/postmodernity, an age when the old political and economic scaffolding of both capitalist and communist empires collapses only to give way to new forms of domination. Hence, the course treats former colonies and former satellite communist states as siblings of subalter(n)ity. The aim is to highlight generic and structural similarities between traumatized post-imperialist cultures, on the one hand, and historical and ideological differences, on the other. Also, I am expecting that, by the end of the course, students will be able to import some methodological instruments of postcolonial criticism into the study of postcommunism, as well as to use postcommunist scholarship as an ideological moderator for the hegemonic first/third-world-oriented discourses in postcolonialism.

While theoretical and methodological reflexivity is thoroughly pursued in the various sessions, efforts are made to offer a lively picture of postcommunist discourse in Romania by means of memorable and stylistically consummate texts by foremost Romanian authors. They are always to be approached contrastively, with a view to the aims outlined above.

The agenda of this course is to rekindle the militant relevance and political involvement of cultural studies in the new context of postcommunist Romania. Postcolonial criticism has always been an effort on behalf of minor/marginal cultures not only to expose and understand the way in which a hegemonic center subdued and manipulated the development of their identity, but also to resist that pressure and rectify their situation. By turning the critical lens of cultural studies on Romania’s own recent history as a marginalized and abused culture, the course is prompting students to engage their own colonized identities and to take a stance in terms of cultural politics.

Friday, February 3, 2017

FINAL RESULTS FEBRUARY 2017


NAME
ATTENDANCE
SHORT ESSAY
FINAL ESSAY
FINAL MARK
SPECIAL MENTIONS
CASAGRANDE JULIANA
9
9,5
9,5
10

DRAGOMIR CEZARA
5
9
9,5
9

HANNAH BAJILAN
9
6
4,5
5
barely articulated and missing the comparative perspective or transfer of methodology
LING YANG
9
4,5
4
4
illegible, missing the comparative perspective or transfer of methodology
LUND-ANDERSEN GONNA
5
-
-
ABS

MUSAAB HASAN ALI
6
5,5
4
4
insufficently articulated argument, missing the comparative perspective or transfer of methodology
OCHIANA RALUCA
7
7
5
6
barely articulated and missing the comparative perspective or transfer of methodology
PETRESCU ADRIANA MARIA
8
10
10
10

PIRVAN CRISTINA
7
9
10
10

ROSCA IONUT
6
9
8,5
8

SAVESCU (DESAGA) ROXANA VALERIA
8
10
10
10

SFEDU BIATRICE
6
8,5
8,5
8

BRODERSEN INSA LERKE
1


RETRASA

VISOSCHI IOANA
3
9
8,5
8


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