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Course Catalog 2018-2019 
    
Course Catalog 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ENGL 265 - Anglophone Postcolonial Literatures


Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, CD, WINT

An introduction to Anglophone literatures of Africa, South Asia and their diasporas, this course addresses (and historicizes) the politics of their production and reception, focusing particularly on their engagement with the politics of (i) gender and sexuality; (ii) regional and national socio-cultural formations and their ideologies; (iii) resistance and/or conformity with western canons of taste, styles/genres. Postcolonial and feminist theories regarding “marginality”/”location,” “identity”/”experience,” and “alterity”/”difference” constitute important analytic lenses for examining these literatures. Diversity, Post-1900.

Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: A. Needham

Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “200-Level Courses.”
Cross List Information: This course is cross-listed with CMPL 265.
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies



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