COLT 1811J - The Paternalistic Thiller and other Studies in Colonial Fiction

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Brown University

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The impact of colonialism on European fiction from the rise of empire to its decline and fall, focusing on authors who wrote from direct contact with the peoples of Africa and Asia, such as Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, T.E. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, and Isak Dinesen. Topics will include romantic images of conquest, imperial ideology in literature, differing attitudes towards acculturation, and the changing symbolism of exotic settings.

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0.00 - 1.00

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www.brown.edu

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(401) 863-1000

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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