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.
Studenții de la Masteratul de British Cultural Studies (FLLS), Studii Literare (Litere) și Comparative Politics (FSPUB) pot trimite eseurile finale pînă la 1.09.2020 pentru restanță.
Pentru a vă asigura o notă de trecere, trebuie
- să încărcați eseul/eseurile cerute (cf. cerințele stipulate pe acest site) pe platforma Turnitin și
- să trimiteți la adresa bogdan.stefanescu@lls.unibuc.ro un singur fișier cu conspectele pentru bibliografia de la cel puțin 50% dintre întîlnirile programate.
(Pentru detalii privind încărcarea pe Turnitin și alte informații, consultați site-ul - Cerințe curs - link.)*******************************
Students from the MA programs for British Cultural Studies (FLLS), Studii literare (Litere) and Comparative Politics (FSPUB) are to send in their resit assignments by 1 Sept. 2020.
To secure a pass you must
- mount on Turnitin the required essay(s)--check the Course Prerequisites page on this site and
- email a single file with your reading notes for at least 50% of the scheduled meetings at bogdan.stefanescu@lls.unibuc.ro.
(Further details about mounting essays on Turnitin and other useful info at Cerințe curs - link.)
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