İDE413

School of Humanities \ English Language and Literature

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Elective

English

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Undergraduate

This course will examine the specter of Euro-American imperialism and colonialism that haunts global intercultural exchange and interaction through the dialectical relations of non-European and US artists with Euro-American writers, thinkers and spaces. The course will explicitly take a postcolonial and decolonial perspective in examining literature, film, music and other cultural aesthetics, as well as a range of theoretical texts.

Ashcroft, The Postcolonial Studies Reader; Ahmad, In Theory; Boehmer, Colonial and Postcolonial Literature

İDE 413: Intercultural Interactions aims to both introduce and examine theories, cultural aesthetics and practices exchanged across multiple cultural and national boundaries.

1. Understand the experiences of groups living beyond the borders of Europe and the US, but still under European and US pressure

Week 1: Understanding and using world, center and course terminology
Week 2: Understanding and using world, center and course terminology
Week 3: "Can the Subaltern Speak?" • Gayatri Spivak
Week 4: "Discourse on Colonialism" • Amié Césaire
Week 5: Aijaz Ahmad's "'Show me the Zulu Proust' Discussing Positionality: Some Reflections on World Literature"
Week 6: Analyzing/renewing/rethinking Edward Said's "Orientalism" and Frantz Fanon's "Wretched of the Earth"
Week 7: Analyzing/renewing/rethinking Edward Said's "Orientalism" and Frantz Fanon's "Wretched of the Earth"
Week 8: Texts on Migration and Exile
Week 9: Texts on Migration and Exile
Week 10: Decolonial Art(?): Performance, Poetry, Humor and Music
Week 11: Decolonial Art(?): Performance, Poetry, Humor and Music
Week 12: General Review

• Midterm 30 %
• Final 40 %
• Final Assignment 30 %