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Course description

This course involves reading texts that grow out of Europe's encounters with the non-European world and Indigenous peoples. These encounters have been a persistent concern of both European and particularly non-European writers. The course will involve texts that reflect on Europe's impact on the world, examine the legacy of colonial powers, show forms of cultural and political resistance to colonial governments, address issues of violent confrontation and exploitation, and explore processes of reconciliation. Through engagement with different literary genres and mediums in the texts of both European and non-European writers, students will explore conflicting representations of the West and its contested legacy outside Europe.

BAdvHum(Hons) students taking this course as an elective please email westernciv@uq.edu.au

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