ENG 444 - Post Colonial Literature

This course examines the literatures written in English that have emerged from regions or countries formerly colonized by England and the United States, such as Africa, Australia, New Zealand, India, Ireland, the Philippines, and the Caribbean. Topics to be considered may include: the processes of colonization and de-colonization; the problem of writing in the colonizer’s language; the use of postcolonial criticism and theory; and the question of what “postcolonial” means to different writers. Writers to be studied may include: Salman Rushdie, Seamus Heaney, Keri Hulme, Jessica Hagedorn, J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Chinua Achebe, and Derek Walcott, among others.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204, ENG 212, ENG 213 or ENG 214
Diversity, Cross-Cultural and Global Perspectives. Offered in Alternate Years