Postcolonial Literature

ENGL

330

Postcolonial Literature

This course will investigate some of the over-arching themes that connect the literature produced in the postcolonial era. Questions of (western) modernity, economic dependency and marginalization, linguistic autonomy, and cultural hybridity are some of the issues that will be explored. Although literature will be our primary focus, this examination of postcolonial studies will also take us into critical theory, history, political economy, and psychology as we use the notion of "the postcolonial" to interpret relationships-namely how power affects people on global, local, and personal levels. This class will mostly concentrate on the outcomes of the British colonial project by looking at literature from England, Western and Southern Africa, New Zealand, the Caribbean, and India.

Fall, Spring

Undergraduate

Yes

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