(in Polish) Reclaiming Narratives in Various Areas of Culture – Decolonization of Imagination in the 21st Century 520-ERA-3RNAC

Knowledge (symbol: W)
W01: The student has in-depth knowledge of contemporary postcolonial and decolonial theories and their applications in the analysis of cultural texts.
(PRK: P7S_WG – specialist knowledge in the field of humanities)
W02: The student is familiar with selected concepts of reclaiming narratives and can place them within a broader cultural, political, and historical context.
(P7S_WK – contextualization of knowledge)
Skills (symbol: U)
U01: The student can analyze cultural texts (literary, audiovisual, performative) through the lens of colonial critique, Indigenous epistemologies, and marginalized perspectives.
(P7S_UW – application of knowledge in solving problems)
U02: The student can identify and interpret strategies of representation and their impact on shaping social and cultural imagination.
(P7S_UK – communication in academic and non-academic contexts)
U03: The student is able to independently prepare an analytical essay, a presentation, or a research-based reflective project in English.
(P7S_UO – planning and implementation of tasks)
Social Competences (symbol: K)
K01: The student has an advanced awareness of the role of narrative in shaping power relations, exclusion, and voice recovery in both global and local contexts.
(P7S_KK – understanding of ethical and social consequences of actions)
K02: The student demonstrates cultural sensitivity and an open attitude toward diverse forms of expression and identity.
(P7S_KR – responsibility for cultural communication)
K03: The student can collaborate in interdisciplinary and intercultural teams, reflecting critically on their own position within structures of knowledge and power.
(P7S_KO – cooperation and social responsibility)

Active participation in discussions / workshops 25% Quality of engagement, contributions, collaboration
Presentation / cultural text analysis 25% Individual or group – in-depth, critical approach
Final essay (3000–4000 words) 35% Independent, theory-informed analysis
Reflective portfolio / reading journal 15% Short reflections on readings and seminar

Core Literature:
Tuck, E., & Yang, K. W. (2012). Decolonization is not a metaphor
Smith, L. T. (2021). Decolonizing Methodologies
Coulthard, G. (2014). Red Skin, White Masks
Simpson, L. B. (2020). As We Have Always Done
Selected cultural texts (literature, film, podcasts, contemporary art)
Supplementary Literature:
1. Narratives of Indigenous Communities and Local Knowledge
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, This Accident of Being Lost (a poetic-essayistic form of voice reclamation)

Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Thomas King, The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative
Linda Hogan, Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World
2. Affect, Memory, Trauma, and Resistance
Sara Ahmed, The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Marianne Hirsch, The Generation of Postmemory
Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
3. Decolonization in Art, Literature, and Film
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism
Rolando Vázquez, Vistas of Modernity: Decolonial Aesthesis and the End of the Contemporary
bell hooks, Art on My Mind: Visual Politics
Trinh T. Minh-ha, Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism
4. Decolonial Theories and Epistemologies
Walter Mignolo, The Darker Side of Western Modernity
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide
Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Yang (eds.), Toward What Justice?
Aníbal Quijano – articles on “coloniality of power” (e.g., in Globalization and the Decolonial Option)
5. Practices and Case Studies (Central and Eastern Europe, Borderlands, Migration)
Madina Tlostanova, What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet?
Katarzyna Marciniak, Immigrant Protest: Politics, Aesthetics, and Everyday Dissent
Joanna Tokarska-Bakir, Under the Curse: A Social Portrait of the Kielce Pogrom
Magdalena Zaborowska, Me and My House: James Baldwin's Last Decade in France (Baldwin as a figure of transcultural narration)
Films, Podcasts, and Audiovisual Materials (for workshop use):
Sugarcane (2023, dir. Julian Brave NoiseCat, Emily Kassie)
The Territory (2022, National Geographic)
TV series Little Bird (2023, Canada)
Podcast: “The Inconvenient History of Scandinavia” (Episodes 1–6 – “On Sacred Land”, Pismo, PL)
Selected excerpts from: Smoke Signals, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Wind River, Daughters of the Dust

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