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| Module Availability |
| Semester 2. |
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Unit(s) of Assessment (SITS MAB)
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Class Presentation (10 minutes)
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30
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Long Essay (3000 words)
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70
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| Module Overview |
Mobilising the key terms, ‘culture, power and difference’, this module examines performances in different cultural contexts. Through readings of cultural theory, postcolonial texts, and performance analysis, students will negotiate questions of racial and cultural identity, and historical transformation, in relation to their representation in performance.
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| Prerequisites/Co-requisites |
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| Module Aims |
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· To deepen knowledge and understanding of ‘culture’ as a product of political circumstances, including global discrepancies in power.
· To stimulate debate around the political implications of performance.
· To extend understanding of national and global identities as addressed in performing arts practice.
· To identify critical frameworks for understanding the historical, political, and economic issues that inform national and global identities in the performing arts.
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| Learning Outcomes |
Knowledge and Understanding:
· An advanced understanding of the contingent and constructed nature of cultural identities.
· An enhanced critical awareness of the challenge posed to traditional scholarship by postcolonial nationalism and globalisation.
· A critical engagement with current theories of culture and national identity as articulated not only iin performance studies but also in postcolonial, transnational, and diaspora studies.
Cognitive/Intellectual Skills:
· Ability to engage critically with theories of ‘cultural’ and ‘national’ difference.
· Ability to understand and debate the relevance of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of performance.
· Ability to reflect upon the scholarly and political implications of different performative or discursive strategies through oral and written means of expression
Practical/Key Skills:
· Interact with a range of resources for the study of nationality and globality in performance..
· Ability to locate, select and organise research materials independently.
· Ability to debate ideas in a seminar format.
· The development of an expanded scholarly vocabulary for observing and analysing specific performing arts examples.
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| Module Content |
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The module examines a range of performing arts practices that have been represented as ‘cultural’ forms, situating their ‘cultural’ identity in relation to colonialism, nationalism, and to global political and economic forces as well as in relation to their historical context.
The module brings together interdisciplinary approaches from performance studies, social anthropology, cultural history and provides an opportunity for discussion and exploration of non-Western theatrical and dance forms. Through each session, the class will investigate how different theoretical models have been deployed to change paradigms for understanding the performing arts in the current more globalised world.
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| Methods of Teaching/Learning |
- reading cultural and critical theory from postcolonial scholarship
- watching performance whether live or filmed
- class discussion
- lectures on different performance histories and postcolonial theory
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| Selected Texts/Journals |
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Anderson, Benedict, 1991. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London and
New York
: Verso.¿
Fanon, Frantz 1967. Black Skin White Masks, New York: Grove Press
Gandhi, Leela 1998. Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction, New York: Columbia University
Loomba, Ania, 1998. Colonialism/Postcolonialism. London: Routledge.
Said, Edward W, 1979. Orientalism, New York: Vintage Books.
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| Last Updated |
| 14.04.11 |
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