Humanities and area studies – colonial and post colonial discourse

Établissement : Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines - Oujda

Type de formation : Initiale

Type de diplôme : Master

Discipline : Lettres et Sciences Humaines

Domaine : Langue, linguistique, littérature, sciences humaines, cultural studies, translation, media, TEFL

Objectifs : -Understanding the nature and the make-up of these textualities would enable us to address some problems that the postcolonial reality is pregnant with. The discourse of the colonial textualities in our understanding is still alive in present-day politics;
-These textualities vary from purely written documents belonging to different registers and areas of human knowledge, to audio-visual ones such as pamphlets and official discourses, journalistic texts, travel writings, autobiographies and purely fiction writings, films such as cartoons, movies, and documentaries;
-By laying focus on these Area Studies as well as Humanities, the programme is expected to give better preparation for the trainees to cope with current issues relating to politics and society in an age marked by complexity and threatening conflicts;
-Crucial to this issue is the notion of Contact zone, which in the post-colonial era is affecting not only the former colonies, but also the Former Metropolises (France, England, Holland, Italy, Spain and other European countries as well). This has, and is still having, dire consequences on the race relations leading to a new wave of racial violence in Western cities.