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Academic Year 2002/2003

British Historiographic Fiction
ENGL 329 SP

This course will examine the wave of fiction produced in Great Britain that has come to be called historiographic. Written by a generation of writers whose most prominent figures include immigrants from Britain's former colonies, these novels attempt to provide a new, post-imperial account of Britain's past. We will attend to both the critiques of historiographic practice that they mount, and the revisionist histories that they construct. We will also work to excavate the contemporary economic, political and cultural factors to which these texts implicitly refer, examining how the present is implicated in representations of the past.

MAJOR READINGS

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ENGL    Grading Mode: Student Option   

Prerequisites: NONE

SECTION 01

Instructor(s): Bachner,Sally   

Times: ..T.R.. 02:40PM-04:00PM;     Location: FISK414

Reserved Seats:    (Total Limit: 20)

SR. major: 6   Jr. major: 6

SR. non-major: 1   Jr. non-major: 1   SO: 6   FR: X

Special Attributes:

Last Updated on MAR-18-2003

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