ENG 773 - Postcolonial Literature

An examination of the literatures written in English that have emerged from countries formerly colonized by England and the US, such as Africa, Australia, New Zealand, India, Ireland, the Phillippines, and the Caribbean. Topics to be considered may include the processes of colonization and decolonization; 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, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nadine Gordimer, Chinua Achebe, and Derek Walcott, among others.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Offered in Alternate Years