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In this course, we will discuss three novels which are set within the Victorian era and which are concerned with "others" at home and abroad: geographically, we will start with Charlotte Brontë in Great Britain, travel up the Congo River with Joseph Conrad, and will finally settle in Queensland, Australia, with David Malouf. Along the way, we will particularly concentrate on analysing the depictions of "racial others", but we will also be interested in examining representations of gender and class.
When discussing excerpts from several film adaptations of Jane Eyre, Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation of Heart of Darkness, and excerpts from the Australian movie We of the Never Never, we will ask ourselves whether the films succeed in bringing the problem of othering to the viewer's attention, whether they are at all interested in giving a voice to marginalized and silenced characters – or if these films in fact perpetuate othering.
Readings: Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness. David Malouf, Remembering Babylon. Film adaptations of Jane Eyre (excerpts). Francis Ford Coppola (dir.), Apocalypse Now. Igor Auzins (dir.), We of the Never Never (excerpts). |
