Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literatures
- Code
- BMI-SKAD17-344.233
- Title
- Optional special course in Scandinavian Studies
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- ECTS
- 2
- Language
- Description
- BMI-SKAD17-344****Optional special course in Scandinavian Studies 1*******
- Learning outcomes
- During the semester, students will explore postcolonial interpretations of Danish, Norwegian and Swedish literature.
- Course content
- Students will examine how Scandinavian literatures deal with themes of indigenous peoples, colonialism and immigration. They will broaden their knowledge of postmodern literary theories.
- Assessment method
- term mark. By the end of the semester a creative, project based work must be submitted.
- Bibliography
- Aimé Césarie, Joan Pinkham, Robin D.G. Kelley: Discourse on Colonialism. Monthly Review Press. New York, 2000. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin: The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures. Methuen. London, 1989. Edward W. Said: Orientalism. Vintage Books. New York, 1979. Fredric Jameson: Postmodernism, Or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Duke University Press. Durham, 1991. Homi Bhabha: The Location of Culture. Routledge. London, 1994.