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: restricted to class level standing of junior, or senior

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