Postcolonial Literature and Theory
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TR 10:30-12
Fulfills Sector 1: Theory and Poetics of the English Standard Major
Fulfills Sector 2: Language, Literature and Culture of the English Standard Major
Fulfills Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the English Standard Major
Workshop on key questions and analytics in the study of colonial and postcolonial literatures. The course will attempt to avoid a catch-all model of postcoloniality by concentrating on the literature, history, and diasporic communities of the Indian Subcontinent. Primary texts by Anand, Rao, Narayan, Naipaul, Desai, Rushdie, Suleri, Roy, and others; secondary readings by Fanon, Said, Spivak, Bhabha, Mohanty, Loomba, Ahmad, and others.
updated 2008-04-24
