ENGL 430 - Performing Heritage: Representation,Otherness,and Power

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Trinity College

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The issue of personal and cultural identity and self-representation shall be discussed in relation to specific performative practices, both in the spheres of hegemonic power and subaltern resistance. We will consider the double-edged aspect of representation: on the one hand, as a colonial instrument designed to invent and classify "the other," and also as a vehicle of empowerment for subaltern groups and subjects. In the latter sense, self-representation is often conceived as a way of achieving political and cultural representation within a dominant society. But we might then interrogate to what extent, for example, indigenous people are able to appropriate technologies of representation, and how they can (if at all) control the reception others have of their work. Our discussion will consider how the struggle for indigenous self-representation may lead to social agency and empowerment and the implications it has within the framing of an "intangible heritage." This is a composite graduate and undergraduate course. This course satisfies the requirements of a cultural context course. 1.00 units, Seminar

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1.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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