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Class number:
3090
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Title: Postcolonial Literature&Theory |
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Department: English |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: Yes |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 15 |
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Current enrollment: 17 |
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Available seats: 0 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 3, 2024 |
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End date: Wednesday, December 18, 2024 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM, 115V - 103 |
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Instructor(s): Bergren, Katherine |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement |
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Note: For majors enrolled before December 2023, this course fulfills the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written post 1900, or critical reflection. For majors enrolled after January 2024, this course fulfills the post 1800 requirement, the critical reflection requirement, the UVSJ requirement, or may be an elective/additional literature or film course. |
Course Description:
This course provides an introduction to Anglophone literatures produced after decolonization. We will read foundational essays of postcolonial theory alongside several novels in order to consider how these literatures represent issues of identity, nationalism, globalization, and race. The seminar will address the effects of literary form on these fraught representations, as well as the implications of approaching literature through the lens of "postcolonialism," as opposed to globalization studies, World Literature, transnationalism, or the study of the Global South. Readings will include essays by Homi Bhabha, Franz Fanon, Mary Louise Pratt, Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak; and novels from the African diaspora and South Asia. |