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Spring 2019  |  CSDS 8910 Section 001: Advanced Topics in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society -- Postcoloniality and Politics of Narrative Voice (66532)

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3 Credits
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In Person Term Based
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Topics Course
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CL 8910 Section 001
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Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019
Tue 01:00PM - 04:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 325
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Open (2 of 7 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
Themes in comparative, sociohistorical analysis of discursive practices. Individually or team taught. Topics vary by instructor and semester.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSDS8910+Spring2019
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It would be hard, if at all possible, to conceive of a case of colonization that does not extend to language and thought. In post-Columbian colonial endeavors, at least, land confiscation comes with a whole range of imposed institutions (political, religious, educational, artistic…) that alter people's daily habits from forms of subsistence to the languages spoken, from long-held beliefs and collective self-representations to cultural performances. The resulting impacts, with their political weight, are at the heart of postcolonial aesthetics. Thus, although the immediate driving force of colonization is economic in nature, its repercussions reach questions of cultural and personal identities, forms of governance, migration, imperial hegemony and, obviously, aesthetic creation and discourse. The purpose of the seminar is to explore these various aspects through that most symbolic dimension of discourse: the voice. Focusing on narrative choices in selected francophone novels and drawing on essays on Caribbean and African aesthetics (but also on literary theory in general), the seminar will examine the political dimensions of literary discourse.

Literary readings for the seminar include Crossing The Mangrove (by M. Condé), The Fourth century (E. Glissant), The Pillar of Salt (A. Memmi) and Dark Heart of the Night (L. Miano). Theoretical readings, ranging from poetic and aesthetic analyses by writers themselves (Glissant, Memmi, Miano, Benitez Rojo…) to academic essays with narratological, postcolonial or postmodern perspectives (Currie, Fanon, Bhabha, Spivak, Chow…), will complement our conversations.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66532/1193
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
4 December 2018

Spring 2019  |  CSDS 8910 Section 002: Advanced Topics in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society -- Raymond Williams and the Sociology of Culture (66533)

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Class Component:
Lecture
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3 Credits
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Student Option
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No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
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Topics Course
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CL 8910 Section 002
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019
Thu 01:00PM - 04:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 216
Enrollment Status:
Open (4 of 7 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
Themes in comparative, sociohistorical analysis of discursive practices. Individually or team taught. Topics vary by instructor and semester.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSDS8910+Spring2019
Class Description:
It might appear, at first glance, that Raymond Williams has disappeared from the scene of contemporary criticism and theory - at least from his prominence as the figure who, according to Terry Eagleton, "transformed cultural studies from the relative crudity in which he found them to a marvelously rich, resourceful body of work." In this seminar, our collective task will be to disinter Williams, to return him - as an idea and as a representative of a tradition - to our thinking about the present and the future (not to mention the past). The challenge for any materialist approach to culture these days comes not from sources overtly hostile to transformative ideals, but from those that regard an emphasis on social transformation to be the stuff of "vulgar," "exhausted" and "conservative" Leftism. Our project throughout the semester will be to read closely, derive the impulses behind, and re-imagine the politics that animated the work of Williams. This is necessarily a comparative project since Williams mostly wrote in and about English society; but in so far as the discipline of literary criticism (as well as the sub discipline of cultural studies) represents a cultural import, such comparison opens up ground for critical cultural inquiry unavailable elsewhere, while also providing a deeper acquaintance with the history of our own formation in and by English studies. Using his own preferred designation of a "sociology of culture," we will explore the range of Williams's essays, reviews, books, as well one of his novels, and assess them in the light of secondary readings.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66533/1193
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
13 November 2018

Spring 2019  |  CSDS 8910 Section 003: Advanced Topics in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society -- Sublime Politics and the End of Existence (66534)

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No instructor assigned
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Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Meets With:
CL 8910 Section 003
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
UMTC, East Bank
Enrollment Status:
Closed (0 of 7 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
Themes in comparative, sociohistorical analysis of discursive practices. Individually or team taught. Topics vary by instructor and semester.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66534/1193

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