Fall 2019  |  CSCL 3130W Section 001: Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures and Theory: 1700 to the Present (33466)

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:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019
Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Akerman Hall 215
Enrollment Status:
Open (22 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Readings in colonial/postcolonial literatures/theory from at least two world regions: Africa, the Americas, the Arab world, Asia, Europe, and the Pacific. Cultural/psychological dynamics and political economy of world under empire, decolonization, pre- vs. post-coloniality, globalization.
Class Description:
Of the many remarkable - and remarked - features of Beyoncé's 2016 visual album Lemonade, one was the unexpected revelation of a poet: Warsan Shire, a young Somali poet who writes of war and sub-Saharan women's quest for self-affirmation. Shire's poetry touches on many aspects of contemporary African writing from political upheavals to the ordinary, and yet critical, commitment of unsung heroes, from the experience of migration to the subtle (and not so subtle) manifestations of imperial contempt and hegemony, from love in the context of war to estrangement in the western world. The course will explore such aspects through a selection of works by African and Caribbean writers spanning the 20th and 21st centuries. Questions of decolonization, imperial domination, unsettled identities and conflicted language practices will be examined through a selection of essays on aesthetics and postcolonial theory.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33466/1199
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
7 May 2019

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