ENGL 388 - Selected Authors: Salman Rushdie

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

Focusing on Salman Rushdie?s oeuvre, this course examines the history, politics, society and cultures of South Asia ‘his oeuvre’s primary investment’ as they are distilled through his perspective as a diasporic writer. The course contextualizes Rushdie’s work through theoretical/cultural concepts (hybridity, cosmopolitanism, national allegory) deriving from postcolonial studies with which his work is associated; and it examines gender ideologies that underwrite Rushdie’s representation of dominant or oppositional worldviews in the cultures he writes about.

Enrollment Limit: 20
Instructor: A. Needham

Prerequisites & Notes: ENGL 299 or two 200-level courses. Requirements can be waived with instructor consent.
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Comparative Literature; Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies