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Lecturer(s)
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Horáková Hana, doc. PaedDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Introduction: chosen topics, basic and recommended literature, requirements for the exam. 2. Key terms and concepts: colonialism, colony, imperialism, capitalism, neocolonialism, postcolonialism, postcolony. 3. The clash of Evropy with the ´significant Other´: history of modern colonialism with respect to British colonialism. The White Man´s Burden - ideological legitimization of colonialism. Race and racial relations between the colonizers and colonized. Scientific theories of race and social evolutionism. 4. Intelectual predecessors of postcolonial studies. 5. Postcolonialism and the analysis of colonial discourse: Said, Fanon, Aimé Césaire, atd. Documentary on Fanon. 6. Said´s Orientalism. Occidentalism. 7. Ideological sources of postcolonial studies: poststructuralism (Jacques Derrida); postmodernism (Michel Foucault); feminism; marxism (Antonio Gramsci); psychoanalysis (Jacques Lacan); lingvistics; literary theory (Ashcroft, Griffiths, Tiffin). 8. Postcolonialism a postmodernism/crisis of reprezentation 9. "Holy Trinity" (Bhabha, Spivak, Said); hybridity, postcolonial identity, diaspora. 10. Critique of postcolonialism. 11. Anthropology and postcolonialism: crisis in Africa (Chabal, Ranger, Hibou, Bayart, Davidson). Thirdworldist anthropology. 12. Postcolonial situation as an object of anthropological inquiry. 13. Final consolidation of the course.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the course is to introduce the students to the basic concepts and theories of postcolonialism. We will explore the relationship between colony, postcolony, tribe, ethnicity, nation and state within the literature of socio-cultural anthropology, sociology, political science, literary theory, history and the so-called cultural studies. Postcolony as a specific identity emerging from a distinct historical trajectory, will be examined as a dynamic phenomenon, including further elements such as tradition and modernity, authority and power, and culture and identity.
After successful passing the course the student will be able to demonstrate a relatively complex knowledge of the major concepts and theories of postcolonialism: the history of ideas, institutions, development of methodology, dominating scholarly interests, including the knowledge of great figures - founders of the main schools of thought. At the same time, he or she will be able - also after going through seminar work with primary texts - to apply an analytical and critical approach.
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Prerequisites
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The prerequisite to master this course is to get to know the basics of cultural anthropology after the first year at the bachelor study level, especially the course Academic writing, History of cultural anthropology, and Introduction to Cultural Anthropology.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Oral exam, Essay, Student performance
Active participation in class, fulfilling prescribed tasks, home study of chosen literature and systematic seminar work. Essay on a chosen topic of colonial/postcolonial issues (40%, range 1,500 - 2000 words). Oral exam (60% = passing) based on the lectures and literature.
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Recommended literature
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Abdel-Malek, A., & Havránek, V. (2011). Postkoloniální myšlení II. Praha: Tranzit.cz.
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Arjun Appadurai; Ramón Grosfoguel; Stuart Hall; Dipesch Chakrabarty; Partha Chatterjee; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. (2014). Postkoloniální myšlení IV.. Praha Tranzit.
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ASCHROFT, B., GRIFFITHS, G., and TIFFIN, H., eds. The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. New York and London: Routledge, 2006..
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Bhabha, Homi. (2013). Místa kultury. Postkoloniální myšlení III.. Tranzit, Praha.
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David Festa, J. Tomeš, J. Novotný a kol. (eds. (2007). Konflikt světů a svět konfliktů: střet idejí a zájmů v současném světě. Praha. P3K.
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Fanon, F., & Kozelská, I. (2011). Postkoloniální myšlení I. Praha: Tranzit.
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FISCHER-LICHTE, Erika, JOST, Torsten, IRIS JAIN,Saskya (eds.). (2014). The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures. Beyond Postcolonialism. London, New York: Routledge.
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Mamdani, Mahmood. (1996). Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism. Cape Town: David Philip.
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Said, E. (2008). Orientalismus: Západní koncepce Orientu. Praha.
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Tumis, S., H. Nikl. Eds. (2015). Prekolonialismus, kolonialismus, postkolonialismus: Impéria a ti ostatní ve východní a jihovýchodní Evropě. Praha FF UK.
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Werbner, R. Memory and the Postcolony: African anthropology and the critique of power.
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Werbner, R., Ranger, T. ed. (1996). Postcolonial Identities in Africa. London: Zed Books.
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YOUNG, R.J.C. Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003..
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