50134 Culture, Writing and Textuality

8cp
Requisite(s): 50108 Contemporary Cultures OR 50229 Contemporary Cultures
Disciplinary Strand – Cultural Studies – 200 level

This subject looks at the interrelationship between culture, writing and textuality. It examines the ways in which culture is written through multiple modes of experience and representation. It looks particularly at the ways in which writers produce themselves through encounters or relationships with 'difference'. This subject introduces students to the methods and products of cultural ethnography (literally writing culture) in a critical and expanded framework so they are able to appreciate the strengths and weaknesses of that tradition. It is particularly focused on writing (understood in its richest sense) solutions to critiques of taken-for-granted structures of power and knowledge affecting the development of the social sciences and humanities in Western societies. As a result, students are better able to critique and reinterpret the products of a range of kinds of analysis including traditional ethnography, reportage, exhibitions, documentaries, film, novels and many others.

Typical availability

Autumn semester, City campus
Spring semester, City campus

Detailed subject description.

Fee information

2008 contribution for post-2008 Commonwealth-supported students: $849.17
Note: Students who commenced prior to 1 January 2008 should consult the Student contribution charges for Commonwealth supported students
Not all students are eligible for Commonwealth Supported places.

2008 amount for undergraduate domestic fee-paying students: $2,800.00

Note: Fees for Postgraduate domestic fee-paying students and international students are charged according to the course they are enrolled in. Students should refer to the Annual Fees Schedule.

Subject EFTSL: 0.167

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