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Instructors: Johanna Marquardt
Event type:
online: Seminar/proseminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.874.123
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
6,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Registration group: ELC 123
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Contents:
Within the canon of postcolonial writings, Irish literary texts inhabit a peculiar position. Ireland could be seen as part of the imperial centre both geographically and for a long time politically as well. The Irish were even seen as complicit with the coloniser in the global colonial endeavour. Racial distinctions between coloniser and colonised appear less straightforward than in other cases, which changes the (post-)colonial experience. And the acceptance in Ireland of the English language and the prominent position of Irish writers within the field of English literature is quite undisputed. This course therefore explores the basics of postcolonial theory and investigates how they play out in literary texts that are attributed to a mainly white, predominantly Anglophone, and famously literary country.
Recommended reading list:
Döring, Tobias. Postcolonial Literatures in English. Stuttgart: Klett, 2008.
For further mandatory reading and recommendations, please consult the LMS.
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