ENGL 8400 is also offered in Spring 2025
ENGL 8400 is also offered in Spring 2023
Spring 2023 | ENGL 8400 Section 001: Seminar in Post-Colonial Literature, Culture, and Theory -- Postcolonial Studies Now (64574)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 12 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
Delivery Mode
Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, East Bank
Pillsbury Hall 212
- Enrollment Status:
Open (8 of 10 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:
- Postcolonial Studies Now The seminar is meant to introduce students to actually existing postcolonial studies - that is, the way the field is being practiced right now: its most influential theories, its influence on the profession, and its political meanings. We will look, for example, at "New Modernism" studies (the new wave of work on the unacknowledged postcolonial dimensions of traditional literary modernism - e.g. Susan Stanford Freeman, Colleen Lye, Joe Cleary), the Marxist prehistory of postcolonial studies (e.g. Rossen Djagalov, Monica Popescu, Auritro Majumder), and the close relationship of today's "world literature" with the early initiatives of postcolonial studies (responses to Franco Moretti and Pascal Casanova by the Warwick collective, Eric Blanc, Maria Todorova, and others). We will also spend significant time critically engaging with two important theories that bear on the field: "Actor Network Theory" (esp. Bruno Latour and Rita Felski) and "Decoloniality" (esp. Walter Mignolo and Saba Mahmood) - especially the latter theory. In the course of the semester, we will read closely an exemplary postcolonial novel and a single work of literary criticism engaging with it in order to study problems of critical method. The seminar should be of interest to anyone who seeks to enter the profession, or to write about, modern (that is 19th-21st century) literature, world literature, comparative literature, area studies, philosophy, or colonial and anticolonial histories.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/64574/1233
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