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SOAS University of London MA Postcolonial Studies
SOAS University of London

MA Postcolonial Studies

London, United Kingdom

1 Years

English

Full time

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Sep 2024

GBP 25,320 / per year *

On-Campus

* for overseas student fees | home student fees: GBP 12,220 per year

Introduction

The MA Postcolonial Studies programme offers a focus on the historical relationships of power, domination and practices of imperialism and colonialism in the modern period (late nineteenth century to the present) through the study of literature and culture.

The core module will introduce a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to the literature, film and media of these areas. A range of literary, film and theoretical texts from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Near and Middle East will normally be included in the reading list.

These will address representations of colonialism and decolonisation, neo-colonialism, nationalism in postcolonial societies and diasporic experiences, allowing us to explore the heterogeneous meanings, intersections and strategies of analysis that have emerged concerning postcolonial studies.

Attention will be paid to colonial and postcolonial constructs such as the Oriental, the Global, the Cosmopolitan, the Third World and the multicultural. The core module of the MA programme introduces and analyses interdisciplinary theories and ideological practices around a set of historical and current issues from various regions of Asia and Africa. The range of minors offers students more opportunities to explore interdisciplinarity and regional specificities.

Why study MA Postcolonial Studies at SOAS?

  • Postcolonial MA programmes offered in London and other UK institutions are located within the field of English Studies or the Social Sciences. The Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS ) is uniquely positioned to offer an inter-disciplinary Postcolonial Studies MA programme which allows students to understand and negotiate the field of postcolonial studies with recourse to interdisciplinarity and theoretical explications from the regions of Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
  • SOAS offers a unique range of regional expertise available amongst the CCLPS’s faculty members.
  • The MA Postcolonial Studies programme also offers a timely intervention at a time when there is a national and international crisis in the understanding of multiculturalism, race relations and religious and national affiliations
  • You will be eligible to apply for internships, available to students starting 2023/24.

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