ENGL 121 (E-Z): Postcolonial Literatures of Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean

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Units: 4

Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours

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Prerequisites: upper-division standing or lower-division English course (other than composition) or consent of instructor

Description: The analysis of colonial discourse and of the postcolonial condition. The following topics, among others, may be addressed: historiography and subalternity; national- ism, gender, and sexuality; neocolonialism and transnationality; theorizing resistance; postcolonial identity politics and the discourses of tradition and modernity; the postcolonial intellectual; and postcolo- nial filmmaking and Third Cinema.