COLT 1810R - Bilingualism: Language as a Postcolonial Experience

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Brown University

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Although the era of European colonialism has long ended, the problem of languages especially in the form of unresolved conflicts between the use of European languages and non-European languages remains ever pressing in societies that went through colonization and decolonization. This historical state of being caught between languages, designated here by the word bilingualism, is intimately linked to a constellation of literary, cultural, and social phenomena, ranging from specific narrative techniques, film subtitling, and practices of translation, to the status of so-called foreign accents and native speaker, and to the existential conditions of mimicry, double consciousness, alienation, passing, and melancholy. Texts featured may include criticism and theory by Achebe, Bakhtin, Derrida, Dubois, Fanon, Freud, Glissant, Khatibi, Kristeva, Memmi, and Ngugi, as well as fiction by authors such as F. Dostoyevsky, V. Woolf, K. Ishiguro, J. Lahiri, Chang-rae Lee, and others.

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1.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.brown.edu

Phone Number:

(401) 863-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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