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CUL321: Unassimilable Bodies: UnAustralian Cultural Studies
This unit is designed to introduce students to a cluster of issues, situated in a contemporary Australian context, that are inscribed with various levels of cultural and political contestation; specifically, in this unit we discuss a range of embodied subjects that stand in a relation of crisis and/or dissent in the context of dominant Australian culture. We examine: the cultural panics generated by the ethnic descriptor of Middle Eastern appearance; the war on terror; the power of whiteness; the racialisation of criminality and the prison industry; the politics and poetics of unassimilable bodies; queer ethnic bodies and intercultural desire; buried histories of internment; Indigenous life writing and the cultural politics of counter histories; diaspora and the poetics of anger; ethnic kitsch and the cultural politics of architecture; and Australia's treatment of refugees. These topics are examined in the context of film, documentaries and literary culture.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| Contact Hours: | 4 |
| When Offered: | D1 - Day; Offered in the first half-year X1 - External study; Offered in the first half-year X2 - External study; Offered in the second half-year |
| Staff Contact(s): | Dr Joseph Pugliese |
| Prerequisites: |
27cp and (CUL100 or CUL101 or CUL120 or CUL121) OR (admission to GradCertCritCul and 6cp in CUL units at 100 level) |
| Corequisites: | |
| NCCW(s): | CUL301 |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Media, Music and Cultural Studies |
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