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Fall 2018 | ENGL 8400 Section 001: Seminar in Post-Colonial Literature, Culture, and Theory -- Theories of Postcoloniality and Decoloniality (31901)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Meets With:
AMIN 8910 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, East Bank
Vincent Hall 213
- Enrollment Status:
Closed (11 of 8 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Sample topics: Marxism and nationalism; modern India; feminism and decolonization; "the Empire Writes Back"; Islam and the West. Topics specified in Class Schedule.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?cpexa+ENGL8400+Fall2018 This seminar will provide an overview of the major works and strands of thought in this emergent body of literature and scholarship, and will begin by situating our exploration in the context of anti-imperial and decolonizing struggles of the early and mid-twentieth century. We will then turn to how scholars of subaltern studies approach questions of agency and representation within a broader cultural turn in literary studies. Last, we will consider how recent Native American and Indigenous theorizings of ongoing coloniality and settler-colonialisms have forced reconsiderations of the "post" in postcolonial. Possible readings include Homi Bhabha, Aimé Césaire, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Frantz Fanon, Ranajit Guha, Wilson Harris, C.L.R. James, Edward Said, Steven Salaita, Gayatri Spivak, Ngugi wa Thiong'o.
- Class Description:
- Theories of Postcoloniality and Decoloniality: This seminar will provide an overview of the major works and strands of thought in this emergent body of literature and scholarship, and will begin by situating our exploration in the context of anti-imperial and decolonizing struggles of the early and mid-twentieth century. We will then turn to how scholars of subaltern studies approach questions of agency and representation within a broader cultural turn in literary studies. Last, we will consider how recent Native American and Indigenous theorizings of ongoing coloniality and settler-colonialisms have forced reconsiderations of the "post" in postcolonial. Possible readings include Homi Bhabha, Aimé Césaire, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Frantz Fanon, Ranajit Guha, Wilson Harris, C.L.R. James, Edward Said, Steven Salaita, Gayatri Spivak, Ngugi wa Thiong'o.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/31901/1189
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 19 March 2018
ClassInfo Links - Fall 2018 English Classes