This unit introduces students to the centrality of the body in human experience, taking place, and what it means to be in place, as its opening theme. Drawing on the resources of powerful descriptive ethnographies which create a vivid sense of what it is to be shaped by places, the unit examines the ongoing effects of colonialism both on our sense of place and on the body. We consider the range of post-colonial experiences, from the positive creative flows of hybrid cultural creativity, to illness and trauma, to the increased role of memory and the urge to document the past, linked with the strong emotions of loss and nostalgia. The unit makes special use of the convenor's research on... -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr Kalpana Ram
Prerequisites: 39cp or admission to GDipArtsÂ
