Overview
Description
Literature, film, and theory from and about the colonized world, including Africa, Asia, the Americas, Ireland, the Pacific, and their diasporas.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- Junior or Senior standing
ENG 303
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior standing OR ENG 303.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall
Terms
fall
Core
CO10, CO11
Restrictions
Junior or Senior standing
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- chart the roles that literature has played in decolonization and nation-building in postcolonial societies.
- show how postcolonial literary works are shaped in dialogue with precolonial traditions, the culture of the colonizers, and artistic currents in other postcolonial societies.
- articulate and address the questions raised in postcolonial literary works about economic and social justice.
- articulate and address the questions raised in postcolonial literary works about diversity and the place of minority communities.
- examine the role of postcolonial literary intellectuals in building just and diverse societies.
- show how literary works contest or move beyond nation-bound conceptions of postcolonial culture.
- use historical and sociopolitical knowledge and postcolonial theoretical concepts to analyze and interpret literary form.
- mobilize their knowledge of postcolonial literature and theory to produce consequential oral and written literary criticism.