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Academic Year 2004/2005


Naipaul, Rushdie, Cesaire
ENGL 293 SP

This course will examine the work of these three major authors from the postcolonial/Third World. Each has produced a major corpus of writing and achieved recognition and status. Cesaire is the eminence grise of the Francophone Caribbean, Rushdie the darling of the postmodernists, and Naipaul, while routinely vilified for his politics, is the 2001 Nobel Prize winner for literature. We will examine the concerns of each, both as master stylists, and as passionate critics of the Third and First worlds.

MAJOR READINGS

1. MIGUEL STREET
2. THE MYSTIC MASSEUR
3. BEYOND BELIEF
4. A BEND IN THE RIVER
5. MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN
6. IMAGINARY HOMELANDS
7. EAST-WEST
8. NOTEBOOK OF A RETURN TO THE NATIVE LAND
9. TEMPEST
10. KING CHRISTOPHE

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Two 5 page and one 10 page essays.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

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

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-21-2005


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