This seminar offers an exploration of postcolonial literatures and other media in Europe, focused on issues such as borders, memory, identity, ethnicity, migration, and representation of otherness. The notion of Europe, and European identity will be analysed and deconstructed from a historical and postcolonial perspective engaging with the fields of postcolonial theory, gender studies, media studies, literary studies and European studies as well as political theory, sociology, religious studies, migration and conflict studies. Seminar meetings will be led by several instructors -- including invited guest speakers -- who will approach the field from different linguistic and disciplinary perspectives.

This course is the first course in the minor Postcolonial Studies.
LAS and TCS students who follow this course as part of the core curriculum of their major need to complete a compulsory preparation course/assignment. See students.uu.nl/gw/tcs for more information.