colonisation?[You should support your answer with reference to at least two texts on the unit]
... more texts on the unit interrogates the legacy of a colonial education for colonised and coloniser. 4) ‘The struggle for the power to name oneself and one’s state is enacted fundamentally within words, most especially in colonial situations. So a concern with language, far from indicating a retreat, may be an investigation into the depths of the political unconscious.’ (Declan Kiberd) Discuss the relationship between language, narrative and identity in any one or more texts on the unit. 5) ‘In our most ambitious writing, we do violence to form.’ (Robert Kroetsch) In what ways and with what intentions does postcolonial writing do violence to form? Illustrate your answer with appropriate reference to any one or two primary texts. 6) ‘The body breaks out from the codes that repress it.’ Consider the ways in which bodies are objectified or encoded in colonial and postcolonial contexts and their potential to work as a site of resistance. Support your answer with detailed reference to one or more texts. 7) ‘The nation fantasizes women in a homogenized, abstracted, familial order [so that] women become a metaphor for what they represent, rather than what they are.’ (Zillah Eisenstein) Consider the ways in which women negotiate the gendering of national identity in any one or more texts on the unit. 8) ‘Colonialism did not inscribe itself on a clean slate, and it cannot therefore account for everything that exists in “postcolonial” societies. The food, or music, or languages or arts of any culture that we think of as postcolonial evoke earlier histories or shades of culture that elude the term “colonial”.’ (Ania Loomba) Consider the ways in which one or more...