Postcolonial Studies in Gender Perspective
Osnova sekce
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The course showcases postcolonial studies as a discipline within literary theory and cultural studies in the scope of which it developed, as well as within critical the analyses of historical and contemporary power structures, social norms and cultural representations of the so-called globalized world, and international relations. The course sees into cultural and social practices relating to diversity, difference and othering from the positions of the center and the margin, it dissects the concepts of objectification of „the other“ and while employing feminist theories and gender as and analytical category it contrasts universalist and relativist thought. Besides the parallels between postcolonial and decolonial theories, the course aims to expose the contribution of feminism to the said modes of thinking.
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