ENGL 285

Fall 2016 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 22-Dec 7

Postcolonial Lit in English

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Credit: 3 hours.

Examination of selected postcolonial literature, theory, and film as texts that "write back" to dominant European representations of power, identity, gender and the Other. Postcolonial writers, critics and filmmakers studied may include Franz Fanon, Edward Said, Aime Cesaire, Ousmane Sembene, Chinua Achebe, Michelle Cliff, Mahesweta Devi, Buchi Emecheta, Derek Walcott and Marlene Nourbese-Philip.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Cultural Studies - Non-West

Humanities – Lit & Arts

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ENGL 285 class schedule data for fall 2016
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32221	Lecture-Discussion	P	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	English Building	Byrd, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Degree Notes: Literature and the Arts, and Non-Western Cultures course. Section Info: “The imagining needs praise, as does every living thing,” Mvskoke Creek poet Joy Harjo writes in her poem, “A Postcolonial Tale.” Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has also described colonialism as violence not only against lands and the physical body, but as a violation of the imagination in which the colonized are forced to reimagine their worlds through that of the colonizers. This class will examine how imagination functions as a site of violence and survival. Beginning with William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, we will trace how the literature of empire constructs the colonial Other within discursive representations and how postcolonial authors and critics have struggled to reimagine their worlds counter to the impositions of empire. Over the course of the semester, we will consider how writers who emerged out of mid-20th century decolonial struggles transform language, arrival, displacement, settlement, and indigeneity in their writings as a means to reframe and relocate power. Texts will include work by authors from India, the Caribbean, Africa, New Zealand, the United States, and Pacific and over the course of the semester we will return to questions about what constitutes the “post” within postcolonial, which geographies and histories count as postcolonial, and how collaboration and resistance, cohabitation and exploitation, influence and appropriation collide creatively and provocatively to challenge the ordering of the globe into “North” and “South.”