ENGL 350 - Postcolonial Literature

FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall 2015

Prerequisites: ENGL 299. A study of the finest writers of postcolonial poetry, drama, and fiction in English. The course examines themes and techniques in a historical context, asking what “postcolonial” means to writers of countries formerly colonized by the British. Topics include colonization and decolonization; writing in the colonizer’s language; questions of universality; hybridity, exile, and migrancy; the relationship of postcolonial to postmodern; Orientalism; censorship; and the role of post-imperial Britain in the publication, distribution, and consumption of postcolonial literature. Keen.