CMPL 203 - Polycentrics Modernism

FC ARHU CD

4 credits
It is often said that Modernism ends by the mid-20th century, but this course challenges that periodization, for isnt it Eurocentric to announce the end of modernism just as postcolonial countries start exploring their own modernities? Comparing Western and (post-)colonial literatures from Herman Hesse and Ingmar Bergman to Waguih Ghaly and Ousmane Sembe, from Virginia Woolf to Jamaica Kincaid, and Marguerite Duras to Clarice Lispector, we will problematize the cartography of modernism, explore the role of gender, and examine how (post-)colonial aesthetics rewrite political and cultural histories to adapt to the inevitable pluralities of our hybrid world.