1st Week (5 Oct.):
Introduction. Outline and Prerequisites of the Course.
Cultural Studies and their intertextual ties to other disciplines.
2nd Week (12
Oct.)
The Power of Discourse – Language in/as action, language
and representation. Discourse Study in Pragmatics and the Philosophy of
Language
- J. L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words,
Oxford: Oxford UP, 1962, 1-11;
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George Lakoff and
Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By, London: University
of Chicago Press, 2003 (1980), 8-22.
3rd Week (19
Oct.)
SOFT APPROACHES I. The Discursive Turn in the study
of societies and cultures. Language and power in the formation of cultural
identity.
Bibliography (two of the
following):
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Ruth Wodak,
“Introduction: Discourse Studies – Important Concepts and Terms”, R. Wodak and
M. Krzyzanovski (eds.), Qualitative Discourse Analysis in the Social
Sciences, Houndmills & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 1-20;
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Michel Foucault, “The
Order of Discourse”, R. Young (ed.), Untying the Text: A
Post-Structuralist Reader, Boston & London: Routledge and Keegan Paul,
1981, 48-78.
4th Week (26
Oct.)
SOFT APPROACHES II. The Discursive Turn in the
study of societies and cultures. Cultural identity and the discursive
constitution of societies.
Bibliography (two of the
following):
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Anthony
Giddens, Modernity & Self-identity: Self and Society in the late
Modern Age (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991), 23-34;
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Wendt,
Alexander. Social Theory of International Politics. Cambridge, New
York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2003 (1999), 171-178;
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Bogdan Ştefănescu, Postcommunism
/ Postcolonialism: Siblings of Subalternity, EUB 2013, 82-98.
5th Week (2
Nov.)
Coloniality, colonialisms, colonies; Colonialism
versus imperialism, colonialism and modernity.
Bibliography (one of the
following – a or b):
a) - Bogdan Ştefănescu, Postcommunism / Postcolonialism: Siblings of
Subalternity, EUB 2013, 47-65, 112-117.
or
b) - Osterhammel, Jürgen. Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview.
Princeton: Marcus Wiener Publishers and Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 1997
(1995), 1-22.
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‘Modernism’ and ‘modernity’ entries in Ashcroft, B. et alia, Key
Concepts in Post-colonial Studies. London & New York,
Routledge, 1999 (1998), 143-7.
6th Week (9
Nov.)
Contrasting postcommunism and postcolonialism: generic and typological
similarities vs. historical and ideological differences.
Bibliography (two of the
following):
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David Chioni Moore, „Is the Post- in Postcolonial the Post- in Post-Soviet?
Towards a Global Postcolonial Critique”, Violeta Kelertas (ed.) Baltic
Postcolonialism, Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2006,
11-44.
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S. Chari and K. Verdery, „Thinking between the Posts: Postcolonialism,
Postsocialism, and Ethnography after the Cold War”, Comparative Studies in Society and
History 51.1 (2009), 6–34.
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Henry F. Carey and
Rafal Raciborski, “Postcolonialism: A Valid Paradigm for the Former Sovietized
States and Yugoslavia?”, East European Politics and Societies 18
(2004), 191-235.
7th Week (16
Nov.)
The coloniality of (post)dependent cultures:
Cultural trauma as unifying concept for Western and Soviet coloniality
Bibliography (two of the following):
a)
- Rebecca Saunders and
Kamran Aghaie, “Introduction: Mourning and Memory”, Comparative Studies
of South Asia Africa and the Middle East vol. 25, no.1 (2005), 16-29;
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Piotr Sztompka, “The
Trauma of Social Change: A Case of Postcommunist Societies”, J. Alexander et
al. Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity, University of
California Press, 2004, 149-189.
or
b) - Robert Eaglestone, “’You Would Not Add to My Suffering If You Knew What
I Have Seen”: Holocaust Testimony And Contemporary African Trauma
Literature’, Studies in the Novel vol. 40, 1&2 (2008),
72-85.
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Kiossev, Alexander,
“Notes on Self-colonising Cultures”, Art and Culture in post-Communist
Europe. Eds. B. Pejic. & D. Elliott. Stockholm: Moderna Museet, 1999,
114-8.
8th Week (23
Nov.)
Main Concepts of Postcolonial Cultural Studies and their potential
applicability in Postcommunist Cultural Studies.
Bibliography:
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Entries for agency, authenticity, cartography, center/margin, comprador,
creolization, counter-discourse, cultural diversity/difference, dependency
theory, essentialism, Eurocentrism, exotic(ism), hybridity, liminality,
negritude, Orientalism, subaltern, world system theory in Ashcroft, B. et alia, Key
Concepts in Post-colonial Studies, London & New York:
Routledge, 1999 (1998).
9th Week (7
Dec.)
The West and the rest. Self and exotic other in the
creation of European identity.
Bibliography (two of the
following):
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Edward W. Said,
“Introduction,” Orientalism, new and rev. ed., New York: Vintage
Books, 1994 (1983), 1-28.
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, „Can the Subaltern Speak?”, C. Nelson and L.
Grossberg (eds), Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, London:
Macmillan, 1988.
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Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture, London and New York:
Routledge, 1994, 66-84.
10th Week (14
Dec.)
Main Concepts of Postcommunist Cultural Studies and their potential
applicability in Postcolonial Cultural Studies.
Bibliography (two of the
following):
a) - Entries for Balkanism, postcommunism, communization/decommunization,
transition, wooden language in Monica Bottez et
al. Postcolonialism/Postcommunism: Dictionary of Key Cultural Terms, EUB
2011.
- Bogdan
Ștefănescu, „Viză respinsă. Anevoioasele călătorii teoretice dintre lumea
postcolonială şi cea postcomunistă”, Dus-întors. Rute ale teoriei
literare în modernitate, ed. de Oana Fotache, Magda Răduță, Adrian
Tudurachi, Humanitas, 2016.
or
b) - Monika Albrecht (ed.). “Introduction” to Postcolonialism
Cross-Examined: Multidirectional Perspectives on Imperial and Colonial Pasts
and the Neocolonial Present. London, New York: Routledge., 2019, pp. 1-47.
- Dumitru
Tucan, “The Adaptability of Theory: Postcolonialism Vs. Postcommunism in
Romanian Literary Studies”, in Dacoromania litteraria vol.II /
2015, pp. 101-116.
11th Week (4
Jan.)
The Other(ing of) Europe.
Bibliography:
-
Milica Bakic-Hayden, „Nesting Orientalisms: The Case of Former
Yugoslavia”, Slavic Review, 54. 4 (1995), pp. 917-931.
and one of the following
- Larry Wolff, Inventing Eastern Europe. The Map of Civilization
on the Mind of the Enlightenment, Stanford: Stanford University Press,
1997, 1-16.
or
- Maria Todorova, Imagining the Balkans (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1997), 3-20.
12th Week (11
Jan.)
The Connection between the Second and Third World in a Colonial Context.
Bibliography (one of the
following – a or b):
a)
- Benyamin Neuberger,
“The African Concept of Balkanisation”, The Journal of Modern African
Studies, Vol. 14, No. 3 (1976), 523-529.
-
Ádám Mayer, „Afrikanizacija: Eastern European Epistemologies and African Labour”, Intersections. EEJSP 2.1 (2016), 54-73.
or
b) - Eboe Hutchful, “Eastern Europe: Consequences for Africa”, Review
of African Political Economy, No. 50, Africa in a New World Order
(Mar.,1991), 51-59.
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Monica Popescu,
“Lewis Nkosi in Warsaw: Translating eastern European experiences for an African
audience”, Journal of Postcolonial Writing Vol. 48, No. 2
(2012), 176–187.
13th Week (?)
Modernization Traumatized Identities: the loss of self and authenticity.
Bibliography:
-
Mbembe,
Achille. On the Postcolony. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London:
University of California Press, 2001, 1-23.
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Bogdan Ștefănescu,
“Filling in the Historical Blanks: A Tropology of the Void in Postcommunist and
Postcolonial Reconstructions of Identity”, D, Pucherova and R. Gafrik
(eds.) Postcolonial Europe? Essays on Post-Communist Literatures and
Cultures, Brill/Rodopi, 2015, 107-120.
