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Nov 08, 2024
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CMPL 265 - Anglophone Postcolonial LiteraturesFC ARHU CD WINT 4 credits 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 (a) gender and sexuality; (b) regional and national socio-cultural formations and their ideologies; and (c) resistance and/or conformity with western canons of taste, styles, and genres. Postcolonial and feminist theories regarding marginality/location, identity/experience, and alterity/difference constitute important analytic lenses for examining these literatures.
Prerequisites: one course with the WINT attribute. This course is cross-listed with ENGL-265
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