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ENGL275

Postcolonial Literature
ENGL275 FA

Fall 96 Availability (Last Updated on Sat Mar 8 05:00:40 EST 1997 )

Section  Limit  Enrollment  Available
  01       63      63         0

This course will introduce the student to literary texts from a variety of countries, representing formerly colonized nations in what is now called the Third World, such as India, Nigeria, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Trinidad and Brazil. Among other issues, we will discuss whether in fact we are justified in discussing/creating a literary genre called "Third World" or "Post-colonial," what are its attributes if we are so justified and what happens to a text from the Third World when it is read within the First World.

MAJOR READINGS

Selected authors will include Bharati
Mukherjee, Lewis Nkosi, V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Buchi
Emecheta, Jamaica Kincaid, and others.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Two 5-page and one 10-page essays. Midterm and final exams.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

This course counts toward the English Department's Historicity requirement. 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: Discussion Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00 Gen Ed Area & Dept: HA ENGL

Prerequisites: None

Section 01
Karamcheti, I
Times: .T.T... 1:10PM;
Grading Mode: Mixed
Registration Preference (1 high to 6 low, 0=Excluded) Sr: 1, Jr: 1, So: 1, Fr: 1
No Major Preference Given

Last Updated on MAR-10-1997




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