2022W609112 VO British and/or Postcolonial Literature and Culture: From Crusoe to Foe:

Postcolonial

1st session

Pictures on „Cylopes“

 The Queen
 Homer (Odyssee)
 Ulysses
 Novel by James Joyce

 Picture: white colonizer, etc.

Creating sense of empire; visualizing it and bringing into literature
 Male gaze concept -> Colonial gaze (us as colonizers and the “others”) Concept of “othering”.
Whole body of colonial imagery is part of this
Intended scientific; off race
 Picture: Geographical Diagram: John Emslie -> only men, “principle varieties of mankind”
White man in the middle, center; periphery.
 Frantz Fanon “Black Skin, White mask” about being colonized, people, and human with
inferiority complex taken root…
 William Blake: images on Soap, color, etc.
 James Berry
 Boris Johnson
 Star Wars ref: anthologies telling old stories with new stories, filling the gaps .. “The empire
writes back” Bill Ashcroft.

EXAM:
 genres, terminology, historical dates (short questions) memorizable 13 handouts on OLAT
“Lückentexte” to do
 2 open essay questions (with choice to choose from 2)
60%
We have to read “coupled texts” like Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe & J.M. Coetzee, Foe
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre; Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

Reading list:
Read the texts really not summaries
Example questions for exam

Tragicomedy!