ENGL 337 - Postcolonial Literatures

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University of Richmond

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Description:

Survey of major debates and movements in postcolonial literature, with attention to cultural contexts. Prerequisite(s): English 297 or 298 with a grade of C or better. Unit(s): 1 Additional Information: This course considers twentieth-century literature written in and about the former colonies of Europe's modern empires. It concentrates on writing composed in English. Although the course approaches this literature on its own terms, doing so mandates attention to its complicated relationships with the Euro-American canon. Thus, the course considers how postcolonial literature repudiates and seeks to revise European literary forms as well as how postcolonial literature increasingly defines a new sort of canon from an established position inside its boundaries. This course considers how work that emerges from the former colonies or from the migrant populations engendered by imperialism helps to transform the English canon into a more heterogeneous archive. Writers may include Chinua Achebe, Yvonne Vera, Raja Rao, V.S. Naipaul, Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Anita Desai, and others.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.richmond.edu

Phone Number:

(804) 289-8000

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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