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Mag. Dr. Ulrich Pallua Mag. Dr. Ulrich Pallua, +43 512 507 4194, +43 512 507 34421

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British and/or Postcolonial Literature: "You taught me language, and my profit on´t is, I know how to curse." William Shakespeare`s The Tempest and its Interpellative Postcolonial Rewritings

PS 2

5

wöch.

semestral

Englisch

The aim of this course is to familiarise students with key concepts of postcolonial theory for the analysis of the colonial paradigm of the imperial invader. At the end of the semester students will be able to apply postcolonial theories to the different rewritings and give answers to questions like: how did postcolonial writers write 'back to the centre'? In which ways did they challenge the colonial paradigm?

William Shakespeare’s The Tempest (1611) uses the colonised-coloniser allegory to illustrate Prospero’s invasion of the island and the subjection of Caliban and Ariel: this colonial paradigm of the imperial invader enslaving the native inhabitants has produced many postcolonial rewritings, adaptations, appropriations, and parallels reprocessing the ideological tenet of the theme of mastery in the colonial context including Aimé Césaire’s A Tempest (1967) and David Malouf’s Blood Relations (1989). This course will closely examine Shakespeare’s The Tempest and various reinterpretations and rewritings of it by placing special emphasis on different theories on rewritings of pretexts - such as Homi Bhabha’s "mimicry", Linda Hutcheon’s "parody is repetition with difference", and Harold Bloom’s "anxieties of indebtedness" - serving as the basis for the close examination of the canonized pretext and several of its duplications, imitations, parodies, parallels, and interpellations.

lecture, group discussions, presentations

written paper

Castle, Gregory, ed. Postcolonial Discourses: An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. Print. Post-colonial Shakespeares. Ed. Ania Loomba, and Martin Orkin. Routledge: London & New York, 1998. Print. Döring, Tobias. Postcolonial Literatures in English. UNI-WISSEN Anglistik/Amerikanistik. Stuttgart: Klett, 2008. Print. Lefevere, André. “’Beyond Interpretation,’ Or the Business of (Re)Writing.” Comparative Literature Studies 24.1 (1987): 17-39. Print. McHale, Brian. Postmodernist Fiction. London & New York: Routledge, 1987. Print. McLeod, John. Beginning Postcolonialism. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2000. Print. The Longman Anthology of British Literature. Ed. David Damrosch, and Kevin J. H. Dettmar. New York: Pearson Longman, 2006. Print. The Oxford History of the British Empire. Ed. Roger Louis. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998. Print.

Anmeldevoraussetzung/en: Bachelorstudium: positive Beurteilung der Pflichtmodule 3 und 16 Entspricht im Diplomstudium (343): PS 2 English Literature Entspricht im Lehramtsstudium (344): PS 2 English Literature
Beginn: 02. Oktober 2012