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Nov 26, 2024
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ENG 486A - Studies in Postcolonial Literature and Theory (3 units) CO10, CO11
Literature, film, and theory from and about the colonized world, including Africa, Asia, the Americas, Ireland, the Pacific, and their diasporas.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 303 or Junior standing.
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Spring - Odd Years
Student Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course:
1. Students will be able to chart the roles that literature has played in decolonization and nation-building in postcolonial societies.
2. Students will be able to show how postcolonial literary works are shaped in dialogue with precolonial traditions, the culture of the colonizers, and artistic currents in other postcolonial societies.
3. Students will be able to articulate and address the questions raised in postcolonial literary works about economic and social justice.
4. Students will be able to articulate and address the questions raised in postcolonial literary works about diversity and the place of minority communities.
5. Students will be able to examine the role of postcolonial literary intellectuals in building just and diverse societies.
6. Students will be able to show how literary works contest or move beyond nation-bound conceptions of postcolonial culture.
7. Students will be able to use historical and sociopolitical knowledge and postcolonial theoretical concepts to analyze and interpret literary form.
8. Students will be able to mobilize their knowledge of postcolonial literature and theory to produce consequential oral and written literary criticism.
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