ELCS0098(UG)/ELCS0000(PG) - Cultural Translation and Postcolonial Theory UG Value: 15 UCL credits / 0.5 course unit / 7.5 ECTS PG Value: 30 credits Level: Final Year (Level 6) PG (Level 7) Total Learning Hours: 150 (UG) / 300 (PG) Term: Term 2 Academic Year: 2018/19 Tutor: Dr Azzedine Haddour Teaching structure: UG Assessment:  One 3-hour written exam (100% weighting)) Module Description:   This course focuses on three case studies in which authors appropriate the work of other authors or artists as a means of aesthetic and political expression.  In the first case, students will have occasion to study Césaire’s appropriation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest in A Tempest; in the second, Coetzee’s interpretation of Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe in Foe; in the third, Djebar’s adaptation of the painting of Delacroix Women of Algiers¸ as well as of Picasso’s thirteen paintings which have the same title, in her récit Women of Algiers in Their Apartment.  This comparative and interdisciplinary course engages with the cultural politics of citation, interpretation and translation of canonical texts. It aims to explore the ubiquitous presence of the institution of slavery and colonialism in literature. The course is designed to: i) address the issues of race, writing and cultural difference; ii) introduce students to postcolonial theory and iii) provide them with critical tools to analyze the relationship between power and representation.   This module will allow students to explore the relation between language and national and cultural borders, as writers embed questions of language in the very practice of their writing. Literary texts from a range of geographic, cultural and political contexts will be read alongside critical and theoretical debates at the intersection of several disciplinary perspectives: postcolonial studies, transnational studies, comparative literature, world literature and translation theory.  The module aims to introduce students to postcolonial theory and provide them with critical tools to analyse the relationship between power and representation. By the end of the module, students will be conversant with key aspects of postcolonial theory, they will be able to engage critically with different cultural forms, and to relate them to their historical context. The module will help students improve their ability to think critically about the sources used in interdisciplinary research, and to integrate textual and visual sources in their research.   Primary Texts: John Maxwell, Coetzee, FoeDaniel Defoe, Robinson CrusoeWilliam Shakespeare, The TempestAimé Césaire, Une Tempête (A Tempest)Eugène Delacroix, Women of AlgiersPablo Picasso, Women of AlgiersAssia Djebar, Women of Algiers in Their Apartment   Initial Secondary Bibliography: Octave Mannoni, Prospero and Caliban: The Psychology of ColonizationEdward Said, OrientalismAlbert Memmi, The Colonizer and the ColonizedFrantz Fanon, Black Skin, White MasksFrantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth