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ENGL 376 - Migrant Subjects and the Postcolonial Novel


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

The experiences of migrant subjects from former colonies has been central to the anglophone postcolonial novel. “Migrants,” says Rushdie, “impose their needs on the new earth, bringing their own coherence to the newfound land, imagining it afresh.” But migrants also simultaneously negotiate the ideological needs and values of the host. This course will address such negotiations through work by diasporic writers like Aslam, Cliff, Ishiguro, Kureishi, Rushdie, Smith and others. Invoking theoretical frameworks elaborated by scholars like Bhabha, Hall, and Said, we will explore migrants’ desire to incorporate, challenge, resist, or redefine the host via recourse to their migrant identities.

Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: A. Needham

Cross List Information: This course is cross-listed with CINE 376.


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