ELIT512 POSTCOLONIAL THEORY AND LITERATURE
| Course Code: | 8210512 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | English Literature |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Assoc.Prof.Dr. ELİF ÖZTABAK AVCI |
| Offered Semester: | Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
Course Content
This course aims to serve as an intensive study of major authors in postcolonial theory and literature. Through lecture, discussion, research, and writing, students will practice applying postcolonial theory to works of literature. The course aims to establish some of the important concepts in the study of postcolonial şiterature, discuss colonialism, call attention to major research tools, and exemplify the interplay between the colonialist and the colonized. The course will focus on the conceptual work that postcolonial thinking allows in relation to historical periodizing logic, on the relation of postcolonial to comparable designations such as third world, transnational, global and neoliberal. We will ponder the usefulness of notions of mimicry, hybridity, orientalism, resistance, and migrancy in understanding postcolonial subjectivity. the intersections of these categories with the broder conceptual categories of race, class, gender, sexuality, and notion will be a critical area of inquiry.
Course Learning Outcomes
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | compare and contrast literary texts written in different periods of British literature in terms of form and content. | ✔ | |||
| 2 | appreciate authors who emerge out of non-British contexts. | ✔ | |||
| 3 | approach the notion of the literary canon from a critical perspective. | ✔ | |||
| 4 | read and interpret texts critically from different theoretical vantage points. | ✔ | |||
| 5 | become acquainted with the characteristics of various genres of literature. | ✔ | |||
| 6 | identify major themes and generic features of literary texts. | ✔ | |||
| 7 | analyze the relationships between form and content in literary texts. | ✔ | |||
| 8 | outline the major lines of critical argument around literary and cultural texts. | ✔ | |||
| 9 | write insighful papers on different literary topics. | ✔ | |||
| 10 | articulate their ideas with a critical awareness in literary discussions. | ✔ | |||
| 11 | decipher different literary texts in terms of structure and technical features. | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution