| Module Title and Purpose | 1. Module Title:
Creating the other: Representations of the Balkans and the South Slavs |
| 2. Aims of the Module:
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introduction to the notions of: Other, Image, Representation
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introduction to the methodology of imagology |
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awareness of a cultural and ideological background of an image of the Other |
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awareness of an image as a cultural construct and of its autobiographical character |
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| Module Delivery | 3. Contents:
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Research
to deconstruct a foreigner's image, and in our case, the images of the
Balkans and the South Slavs. That image is for us a literary or some
other expression of the awareness about the difference between two
cultural constants. This interdisciplinary area springs from
literature, but is also affected by historical, social and cultural
events of the country which is the subject of the observation, and the
country of the spectator. The image in that sense is meant to be a
cluster of issues about "a foreigner", which subsumes both the process
of literarisation and socialization. |
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names for the Other |
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creation of the stereotype |
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Why are they all savages? |
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| 4. Indicative Reading:
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Todorova,
Maria, Imagining the Balkans (New York - Oxford: Oxford University
press, 1997 (Serbian translation Biblioteka XX veka) |
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Goldsworthy,
Vesna: Inventing Ruritania. The Imperialism of the Imagination., Yale
University Press, Yale 1998. (Serbian translation Biblioteka XX veka) |
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Todorov,
Tzvetan, Nous et les autres, Seuil, 1989. - 538p. (Serbian translation
Biblioteka XX veka, english translation available) |
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Said, Edward W., Orientalism (New York: Pantheon, 1978); (Serbian translation Biblioteka XX veka |
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Todorova, Maria N.: Hierarchies of Eastern Europe: East Central Europe versus the Balkans. Balkan Review, issue 11, 1997. 2 p |
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| 5. Learning and Teaching Methods:
Total Contact Hours: two contact hours a week in a 14 weeks semester: total 28
Range of other Learning Methods:
Independent learning and directed reading,
Total Study Hours: 80 |
| Module Assessment | 6. Module Learning Outcomes:
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awareness of the predetermination of an Image of the Other
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speaking/writing about the Other is speaking/writing about myself |
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in a given historical period you can not say whatever you want about the Other |
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awareness of the stereotype and mechanisms of its construction |
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7. Assessment Methods:
Number, Type and Weighting of Elements:
Final paper of 10 pages, 1800 signs per page, (60%), oral
exam/disscusion of final paper (40%). The topic of the final paper will
be determined during the course
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| Module Management |
8. Credit Points and Duration:
8 credit points (ECTS), duration of the course one semester |
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9. Contact Person:
Dr Pavle Sekeruš
E-mails: psekerus@eunet.yu
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