ENGL 285

Spring 2021 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 25-May 5

Postcolonial Literature 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 spring 2021
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32110	Online	M	9:30AM -10:45AM	TR	n.a.	Oh, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/25/21-05/05/21 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts, and Cultural Studies - Non-West course. Section Info: Postcolonial Literature in English - European colonialism was much more than a global system of domination. It demands to be understood as a relationship, however unequal, between European colonizers and non-European colonized peoples. In this course we will investigate how power and resistance are configured within colonial relations and their aftermaths. How does power get produced and contested? By whom is it held? What are its effects? We will focus these questions through the potentials and pitfalls of language and literature. How does English, the language of former colonizers, come to represent diverse forms of non-European experience? How is it taken up, changed, and appropriated to “write back” to empire? Relatedly we will ask how postcolonial writers deploy unique narrative forms, genres, and styles to represent colonized experience. Our inquiries into language and power will lead us to consider ongoing political, cultural, and economic inequalities as well as how nation, race, gender, and class affect postcolonial experience. Most of our texts will be drawn from the twentieth century, and may include drama, a travelogue, films, novels, and poetry.