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Dec 22, 2024
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ENG 686A - Studies in Postcolonial Literature and Theory (3 units)
Literature, film, and theory from and about the colonized world, including Africa, Asia, the Americas, Ireland, the Pacific, and their diasporas.
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Spring - Odd Years
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. chart the roles that literature has played in decolonization and nation-building in postcolonial societies.
2. 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. articulate and address the questions raised in postcolonial literary works about economic and social justice.
4. articulate and address the questions raised in postcolonial literary works about diversity and the place of minority communities.
5. examine the role of postcolonial literary intellectuals in building just and diverse societies.
6. show how literary works contest or move beyond nation-bound conceptions of postcolonial culture.
7. use historical and sociopolitical knowledge and postcolonial theoretical concepts to analyze and interpret literary form.
8. mobilize their knowledge of postcolonial literature and theory to produce consequential oral and written literary criticism.
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