Subject: Fw: Poco MA (fwd)
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 19:47:05 +0100




>Postcolonial Cultural studies at Sussex University: MA and Research
degrees.
>
>For further information concerning the MA contact the convenor
>V.R.Quinn-AT-sussex.ac.uk or the MA secretary  s.e.malcolm-AT-sussex.ac.uk
>
>For further information concerning D Phil or M Phil research contact the
English
>Graduate Division Chair J.C.B.Taylor-AT-sussex.ac.uk
>
>For application forms and prospectuses contact PG.admissions-AT-sussex.ac.uk
>
>(1). MA degree; (2). Research degrees, Postgraduate communities,  funding
and
>career opportunities; (3) Faculty; (4)  MA course descriptions
>The University of Sussex offers unique opportunities  for postcolonial
cultural
>studies at postgraduate level. The new 'Colonial and Postcolonial Cultures'
MA   is
>based within the English division.  This  MA explores key debates within
>post-colonial cultural theory. It boasts faculty with a striking range of
theoretical
>expertise and regional specialisms: you can study with tutors of
historical
>materialist, psychoanalytic, postmodernist, Foucauldian,  queer and
feminist
>orientations, and you can explore historical British imperial/colonial
cultures as well
>as Caribbean, Irish, African, South African and Asian cultures. Students
may
>additionally take options from other MA programmes such as those in North
American
>Studies, Sexual Dissidence, Critical Theory, 20th Century Literature,
Literary History
>and Cultural Discourse,  Renaissance Culture,  Women's Studies, Media
Studies,
>Critical Museology, Social and Political Thought, Intellectual History,
Contemporary
>History. Students successfully completing the MA programme are normally
eligible to
>register for doctoral research at Sussex.
>See (4) for outlines of courses in Postcolonial Cultures MA.
>
>
>(2) Research degrees, postgraduate community, funding and career
opportunities.
>Students in possession of an MA or equivalent can register for a research
degree.
>Unlike the USA, research degrees here do not involve  years of preparatory
>coursework (other than the MA) nor oral examinations as prerequisite. The
emphasis
>falls on the thesis composition and submission, which in the case of the M
Phil is
>estimated to involve two years fulltime research, and three years for the D
Phil.
>
>The English graduate division of Sussex is a large postgraduate community.
>Generally MA students number c70-90 a year; there are c80  research
students
>currently registered in English, of which c 15 are working on postcolonial
topics.
>Some current D Phil postcolonial topics:
>Migration in African women's writing
>Male feminism in African literature
>Colonial representations of the South Seas in Robert Louis Stevenson and
Jack
>London
>French negrophilia in interwar Paris
>Political economy and subjectivity in the writing of Equiano and Mary
Seacole
>Indian women's historical fiction
>Indian fiction of Partition
>
>
>Postcolonial research students are encouraged here  in their  career
development.
>Several are active in publishing articles, reviews, and giving papers.
Postgraduate
>events organised by Sussex postcolonial research students include 'New
Directions:
>Post-colonialism, Histories, Identities' conference (September 1997), and
Sussex
>University Africa Forum.
>
>British students studying  postcolonialism can be funded by the British
Academy, of
>which Sussex currently wins more state studentships, as set against student
>population, than any university in the country. Overseas students may be
eligible for
>Commonwealth Scholarships funding, Overseas Research Students (ORS) Awards,
>European Development Fund studentships, British Marshall Scholarships (for
US
>citizens under 26), Fulbright scholarships, Rhodes scholarships, British
Council
>Fellowship schemes, among others.
>
>(3) Postcolonial Faculty.
>Laura Chrisman (BA, D Phil, Oxford).On leave 1998-99.
>Research interests: postcolonial theories;  British imperial literature and
ideology; H
>Rider Haggard; Olive Schreiner; Sol Plaatje; South African black
nationalisms and
>cultural studies. Selected publications: Colonial Discourse and
Postcolonial Theory:
>A Reader (Harvester/Columbia University Press); Altered State: Writing and
South
>Africa (Dangaroo Press 1994); 'Fathering the Black Nation of South Africa:
Gender
>and Generation in Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa and Mhudi,
Social
>Dynamics,  23,  2, winter 1997; 'Questioning Robert Young's Postcolonial
Criticism',
>Textual Practice, 11, 1, Spring 1997; 'Inventing Post Colonial Theory:
Polemical
>Observations',  Pretexts: Studies in Writing and Culture,  5,  1-2, 1995;
Theorising
>"Race", Racism and Culture: Some Pitfalls in Idealist  Critiques',
Paragraph. A
>Journal of  Modern Critical Theory, 16, 1, Spring 1993; 'Colonialism and
Feminism in
>Olive Schreiner's 1890s Fiction',  English in Africa,  20,  1, May 1993;
'The Imperial
>Unconscious? Representations of Imperial Discourse', Critical Quarterly,
32,  3,
>Autumn 1990; 'Gendering Empire: problems in feminist post-colonial
criticism',
>Cultural Readings of Imperialism. Edward Said and the Gravity of History,
eds Keith
>Ansell Pearson, Benita Parry and Judith Squires (Lawrence and Wishart Press
1997);
>'Appropriate Appropriations? Developing Cultural Studies in South Africa',
>Transgressing Boundaries. New Directions in the Study of Culture in Africa,
eds
>Brenda Cooper and Andrew Steyn (University of Cape Town Press and Ohio
>University Press 1996); 'Empire, "Race" and Feminism in the Fin de Siecle:
the Work
>of George Egerton and Olive Schreiner',   Cultural Politics and the Fin de
Siecle, eds
>Sally Ledger and Scott McCracken (Cambridge University Press,  1994);
'Journeying
>to Death: Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic ', Race and Class   39,  2,
>October-December 1997; review article of Earthstepper/The Ocean is Very
Shallow,
>poetry by Seitlhamo Motsapi, The Black Scholar,  26,  2, 1996; Review
article of Anne
>McClintock's Imperial Leather, Southern African Review of Books, Winter
1995, pp
>41-43; 'Imperial Space, Imperial Place. Theories of Culture and Empire in
Fredric
>Jameson, Edward Said and Gayatri Spivak', New Formations,   34. Annotated
>Bibliography of  Colonial and Post-colonial Criticism. In  Annotated
Bibliography for
>English Studies series, Swets and Zeitlinger 1997.  Her book on Empire and
>Opposition is in preparation for OUP.
>
>
>
> Denise deCaires Narain (BA, D Phil, Kent).
>Research interests:  20thc Caribbean poetry, especially women's poetry;
gender,
>feminist theory and the nation; popular culture of the Caribbean; the
politics of poetry
>anthologies; orality and performance studies; diasporic writings.Selected
>publications:  'Body Talk: Writing and Speaking the Body in the Texts of
Caribbean
>Women Writers' in Portraits of a Nearer Caribbean: Essays on Gender
Ideologies
>and Identities,  ed Christine Barrow; (Ian Randle of Jamaica in collab.
with James
>Currey Press, forthcoming);   'Standing in the Place of Love: Sex, Love and
Loss in
>Jamaica Kincaid's Writing' in  Gendered Realities: an Anthology of Essays
on
>Caribbean Feminist Thought,  eds Patricia Mohammed and Althea Perkins
(University
>of the West Indies Press, forthcoming);  'The Body of the Woman in the Body
of the
>Text' in Caribbean Women Writers, ed  Mary Conde (Macmillan Press,
forthcoming).
>Reviews of Pauline Melville, Jamaica Kincaid, Carole Boyce Davies and
Evelyn
>O'Callaghan in Wasafiri; ARIEL; Journal of West Indian Literature.
>
>Rachel Holmes (MA, PhD,  London).
>Research interests: sexuality, queer studies, Southern African literature,
critical
>theory; 19th-century literature and society. Selected Publications: 'Queer
Comrades:
>Winie Mandela and the Moffies', Social Text, 52-3 (1997); 'Leading a normal
family:
>sexuality and nation in South Africa', in Mary Wollstonecraft and 200 Years
of
>Feminisms, ed Eileen Yeo (Rivers Oram Press and New York University Press
>1997); 'Selling Sex for a Living: post-apartheid reflections on urban
prostitution in
>South Africa', Agenda: a Journal about Women and Gender, 23 (1994); 'White
Rapists
>Made Coloureds' (and homosexuals): the Winnie Mandela trial and the
politics of
>race and sexuality', in Defiant Desire: gay and lesbian lives in South
Africa,  ed
>Edwin Cameron and Mark Gevisser (London and New York, Routledge 1994);
>'De-segregating Sexualities', in  Passages: A Chronicle of the Humanities,
III, 5
>(1993).
>
>Siobhan Kilfeather (BA, Cambridge; MA, PhD, Princeton).
>Research interests: Irish literatures; feminisms; 18th century literature;
gothic
>autobiography. Selected publications:  'Origins of the Irish Female
Gothic', Bullan 1:
>1 (1995); 'Sex and sensation in the nineteenth-century novel', in Gender
Perspectives
>on 19thc Ireland, ed Margaret Kelleher.
>
>Vincent Quinn (BA, Oxford; PhD, Cambridge).
>Research interests: sexuality, queer studies; Irish literatures; 18thc
literatures;
>poetry; politics of pastoralism. Selected Publications:  'Literary
Criticism' in  Sally
>Munt and Andy Medhurst's Lesbian and Gay Studies: A Critical Introduction
(Cassell,
>1997); Guest editor of the 'Luxurious Sexualities' special issue of Textual
Practice;
>'Derry/Londonderry as a Sexual Space' in Non-Metropolitan  Sexualities:
Identity,
>Textuality and Space (forthcoming from Routledge; edited by Richard
Phillips et al);
>various C18th entries in the Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, Vol II: Gay
Histories and
>Cultures" (forthcoming from Garland).
>
> Minoli Salgado (BA, Sussex; MA, PhD, Warwick).
>Research interests: Postcolonial Fictionality, Postmodern History; Salman
Rushdie:
>Narration and the Novel; South Asian Literature. Selected Publications:
‘“Open
>Margins”: An Interview with Kirin Narayan’ in Speaking of the Short-Story
ed.
>M.Rohrberger, M.A. Lee, F. Iftekharuddin and R. Federsson (University of
Mississippi
>Press, 1997); ‘The Short Stories of Anita Desai’ in Contemporary Short
story Writers
>ed.  M. Rohrberger, M.A. Lee, S.Rochette-Crawley and R. Federsson
(Greenwood
>Press, 1996); ‘Myths of the Nation and Female(Self)-Sacrifice in Nayantara
Sahgal’s
>Narratives’, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Vol XXI, Number 2, 1996;
‘When
>Seeing is not Believing: Epiphany in Anita Desai’s Games at Twilight’,
Journal of
>Modern Literature,Vol 20, Number 1, Summer 1996; ‘“My Continuing Character
is
>India”: An Interview with Nayantara Sahgal’, Wasafiri, No. 20 Autumn 1994;
>‘Nationalisms and Sexualities’, ed A. Parker, M.Russo, D.Sommer and
P.Yaeger,
>History Workshop Journal, Issue 36, Autumn 1993; ‘The Quietness of Kings’,
Short
>Story, Summer 1998, (forthcoming), ‘Getting to No’, Short Story,Autumn 1998
>(forthcoming); Expatriate Hungers’, Wasafiri, No.23, Spring 1996, ‘Getting
to No’,
>Wasafiri, No.17, Spring 1993: Focus on Writing in Britain.
>
>Françoise Vergès (MA, PhD, University of California).
>Research Interests: Fanon; Colonialism and Post-Colonialism; Feminist
Theory;
>Psychoanalysis and Political Theory. Selected publications: ‘To Cure and to
Free:
>The Fanonian Project of  ‘Decolonized Psychiatry’, in Fanon: A Critical
Reader, ed
>Lewis R Gordon et al (Blackwell 1996); ‘Chains of Madness, Chains of
Colonialism:
>Fanon and Freedom’, in The Fact of Blackness. Frantz Fanon and Visual
>Representation, ed Alan Read.( ICA and Bay Press 1996)
>
>
>George Walter (BA, MA, Leeds).
>Research interests:  Englishness,  20th century poetry, the first world
war, cultural
>myths and popular memories of  national identity. Selected publications:
scholarly
>editions of poetry by Wilfrid Owen, Rupert Brooke, Ivor Gurney;  'Loose
Women and
>Lonely Lambs: The Rise and Fall of Georgian Poetry', in  British Poetry
1900-1950:
>Aspects of Tradition, eds  Gary Day and Brian Docherty;  articles on Ivor
Gurney in
>PN Review. Founding Editor and current Editor of  The Ivor Gurney Society
Journal. In
>preparation:  a critical biography of Ivor Gurney and the new  Penguin Book
of First
>World War Poetry.
>
>Marcus Wood (BA, Oxford, MA RCA London, D Phil Oxford).
>Research Interests:  British, European and North American representations
of
>slavery in literature and art; discourses of abolitionism; postcolonial
theory;
>romanticism; Foucault. Selected Publications: Radical Satire and Print
Culture
>1790-1822 (Oxford University Press); Seeing is Believing or Finding ‘Truth’
in Slave
>Narrative: the Narrative of Henry Bibb as Perfect Mis-representation’, in
Slavery and
>Abolition, Vol. 18, no.3 1997; ‘ “All Right !”: The Narrative of Henry
 “Box” Brown as a
>test case for the racial prescription of rhetoric and semiotics’,
Proceedings of the
>American Antiquarian Society, Vol. 107, pt. 1, April 1997; ‘Imagining the
Unspeakable
>and Speaking the Unimaginable: Visual Interpretation and the Middle Passage
’,
>Lumen, Vol.16, 25; ‘The Abolition Blunderbuss: Abolition and Free
Publishing
>1780-1837’, cap. 4 of Print for Free: Non-Commercial Publishing in
Comparative
>Perspective ed. James Raven (University of Minnesota Press). 'Fanny Price’s
>“Improvement”, Sir Thomas’s “Kindness” and the “Returns” of Antigua”', The
Review of
>English Studies (in press); “What pencil can paint what language can
describe...”: The
>Place of Aesthetics in the Representation of Slave Torture’, in Siting and
Re-citing the
>Past: Productions of African American Memory special issue of Boundary 2:
An
>International Journal of Literature and Culture (in press); Blind Memory,
Visual
>Representations of Slavery in England and America 1780-1865 (in press,
Manchester
>University Press); 'The Golden Age of Radical Satire’, section 3 of The Axe
Laid to the
>Root: Satire, Parody and Radical Literature 1791-1822, anthology ed. and
comp. with
>Ian McCalman and Jon Mee (in press); The Poetry of Slavery in England and
America
>1780-1865 (forthcoming).
>
>
>
>(4) Postcolonial MA course outlines.
>Imperial, Colonial and Postcolonial Cultures. Core course.
>This course introduces and explores theoretical debates concerning
imperial,
>colonial and post-colonial cultures. Rather than take 'the post-colonial'
and
>'post-colonial theory' to be unproblematic terms, the course addresses  the
>intellectual, aesthetic and material stakes involved in their deployment,
and situates
>such terms in relation to earlier and alternative anti-colonial and
liberationist
>formulations. Topics under consideration  include: theories of sexual
difference and
>empire; theories of 'the subaltern', nationalism and resistance; theories
of gender
>and nationalism;  theories of psychological oppression and emancipation;
theories
>of black Atlantic and diasporic cultures; theories of neo-colonialism;
relations of
>Marxism , anticolonialism and postcolonialism. (Laura Chrisman, Francoise
Verges,
>Marcus Wood).
>
>
>optional courses:
>1. Writing Englishness
>This course explores ways in which English identity has been constructed
and
>narrated from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Situating
myths of
>English nationhood in relation to practices and ideologies of empire and
colonialism,
>the course will look at the complexity of this relation as it is traced
across a range of
>literary movements and periods.  Topics can include: politics of
pastoralism (Wind in
>the Willows, Puck of Pook’s Hill); popular imperialism abroad and at home
(Kim;
>Conan Doyle’s The Sign of Four);versions of the regional (Tony Harrison’s
V);
>working-class and socialist Englishnesses (Robert Tressell’s Ragged
Trousered
>Philanthropists, Alan Sillitoe’s Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner);
sexual
>transgression and the nation (The Well of Loneliness); reading the 30s
(Orwell);
>post-imperialism, the Cold War and the Caribbean (Ian Fleming’s Live and
Let Die;
>Agatha Christie’s A Caribbean Mystery);  immigration (The Lonely
Londoners);
>second-generation black Britishness (Andrea Levy’s Never Far From Nowhere);
>ethnic hybridity and multiculturalism (Kureishi’s Buddha of Suburbia).
(Laura
>Chrisman and George Walter)
>
>2. Representing Africa
>This course addresses issues raised within the broad category of
'post-colonial'
>writing, challenging the current tendency to homogenise postcolonial
cultures and
>writing, by locating African and diasporic texts within their specific
political and
>historical contexts. It traces the emergence of 'Africa' as a recurring
signifier in
>colonial and anti-colonial texts, and examines the ways in which
representations of
>Africa in African, Caribbean and African-American texts inform each other.
Texts read
>are sociological, historical and anthropological as well as literary. Film
and music
>may be examined as well as written material. (Denise deCaires Narain)
>
>3. Fantasy and Realism in Irish Fiction
>Critical analysis of the Irish novel has identified a problem with realism
and a flight
>into fantasy as characteristic. This is often attributed to a radical lack
of consensus
>about national identity and an inability to reconcile representations of
trauma such as
>famine and civil war, within the conventions of realist fiction. These
issues are
>examined through a study of Gothic, Sensational and Famine literature, and
in work
>by twentieth-century writers, such as Joyce, Bowen, O'Brien and McGahern.
(Siobhan
>Kilfeather)
>
>
>
>4. Theatre and Nationhood in Ireland
>This course considers the relationship between theatre and national
identity in
>Ireland. It looks at work written for the English stage by eighteenth- and
nineteenth-
>century Irish dramatists, but the main focus is  on twentieth-century
theatere. The
>course examines the different versions of 'Ireland' offered by the Abbey
and Gate
>theatres, and by Field Day. In general, the course explores competing myths
of pre-
>and post-partition Ireland, and considers how certain dramatists refuse to
be defined
>by these myths, or cannot be contained by the theatre companies that
initially offer
>them patronage. (Vincent Quinn)
>
>5. Contemporary Post-colonial Women's Writing
>The course explores a range of contemporary post-colonial women's writing.
It
>focuses mainly on writing by women in Africa, the Caribbean and South Asia
but may
> also include a selection of Canadian and Australian women's texts. These
texts are
>interrogated in relation to the intersecting critical agendas of feminist
and
>post-colonial studies. The course foregrounds the specificity of particular
>contexts/histories of colonialism. Focusing on novels, poetry, short
stories and
>autobiographical writings, the course covers  topics such as
representations of
>nation, home, sexuality, motherhood, aand feminist and post-colonial
identities. The
>course concludes with an examination of the ways in which 'post-colonial
women's
>writing' is being constituted as a discrete field of study by focusing on a
range of
>anthologies of these women's texts ('critical' and 'creative'). (Denise
deCaires
>Narain)
>
>6. Narrating the Past: Postmodernism, History and Post-colonial Literature
>The course explores the thematic and structural links between postmodernism
and
>post-colonial literature through a theoretically-informed analysis of the
representation
>of history in a range of literary texts. Specific topics include: the
writer as historian;
>totalizing narratives and the re-evaluation of local histories; memory and
the
>representation of the relationship between the personal and political past;
the
>exploration of culturally-situated concepts of time; the way in which the
boundaries
>between the fictive and the factual are contested and re-drawn. Writers to
be studied
>include Salman Rushdie, Maxine Hong Kingston and J. M. Coetzee. (Minoli
Salgado)
>
>7. Writing the 'New' South Africa
>This course explores anglophone literature of the 'new' South Africa.
Focussing on
>prose and poetry, the course situates this writing in the context of
radical
>social-political transformation and the simultaneous emergence of major
critical
>debates on cultural production. Examining a mixture of new and established
writers
>of diverse ethnicities, the course considers a number of topics which may
include:
>* the contentions of collective memory and political optimism
>* countering realism: the politics of formal experimentation
>* tropes of gender and reproduction in narratives of nation
>* ethnic identity and multiculturalism
>(Laura Chrisman)
>
>8. Literature of  Slavery
>This course provides an in depth analysis of a range of writings and
pictures
>porduced by blacks, whites, men, women, pro-slavers and abolitionists form
the
>16thc to the 20thc. The opening seminars are focused on Renaissance texts
>including Camoes, Las Casas, Bernal Diaz, Walter Ralegh, Richard Hakluyt.
>Shakespeare's The Tempest is considered in relation to texts it has spawned
by
>Robert Browning, W H Auden, Stephen Greenblatt and George Lamming. European
>pro-slavery writing is analysed beginning with Hegel and William Cobbett,
and
>moving on to Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin. The contribution of women to
>anti-slavery thought emerges through study of Harriet Martineau, Jane
Austen. The
>role of blacks in evolving abolition rhetoric is focused on Equiano,
studied in relation
>to Blake, Wordsworth, and Southey. The visual material thrown up by the
slavery
>debate is also considered, including the political etching, academic oil
painting and
>concludes with a consideration of Werner Hertzog's filmic interpretations
of Brazilian
>slavery and the Spanish conquest of the New World. (Marcus Wood).
>
>
>
>
>
>
>Dr L Chrisman, School of African & Asian Studies, University of Sussex,
Brighton, UK
>Tel:  +44 (0) 1273 606755 ext. 2279        Fax:  +44 (0) 1273 623572
>Email: L.H.Chrisman-AT-sussex.ac.uk
>
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>Dr L Chrisman, School of African & Asian Studies, University of Sussex,
Brighton, UK
>Tel:  +44 (0) 1273 606755 ext. 2279        Fax:  +44 (0) 1273 623572
>Email: L.H.Chrisman-AT-sussex.ac.uk
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