ENGL160A1

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This course offers an introduction to canonical works of colonial and postcolonial literature. Discussed texts will include novels, short stories, essays, and poetry from territories ranging across Africa, South Asia, and the Caribbean. We will ask just what it means for a text and/or author to be \"from\" somewhere and to speak \"from\" somewhere, and we will situate the emergence of a range of national and global Anglophone literatures in the context of colonial histories. Throughout the course, relevant theoretical concepts in postcolonial studies will be discussed, including Orientalism, hybridity, and diaspora. The literatures we study will help us to understand both the historical contexts and present-day status of the spread of global English, globally resurgent nationalisms, rampant inequality in both \"developing\" and \"developed\" worlds, the relationship between colonialism and migration, the promises of multiculturalism, and even contemporary debates on global warming.

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Undergraduate

GE - GEDE (Gen Ed Diversity Emphasis), GE - T1-TRAD (Tier 1 Traditions and Cultures), GEED - EPHUM (Gen Ed: EP Humanist)

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