CCST7320 | THE DIALECTIC OF POWER AND RESISTANCE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY ART AND LITERATURE

The concept of discourse and its various discursive systems; strategies of power and various means of imposing hegemony, “alterity” and its formation, forms of representation/reproduction of the idea of the savage and the civilized, the issue of acculturation and subalternity. The myriad classes of intellectuals and the discourses loyal/opposed between center and margins. Furthermore, deconstruct desires (colonial and otherwise), literary and commitment, and resistance using folklore and the culture of defeated nations. In addition, the idea of righteousness and mystifying liberation. Finally, transferring previous theoretical frameworks through selections from different discursive systems: novel, poetry, music, theatre, cinema among others.