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Colonial and Postcolonial Literary Theory

This course will examine the ways in which colonialism restructured the ideologies of both colonizer and (post)colonized. Readings in colonial discourse will include examples of how it was deployed in fields as varied as journalism, education, architecture, medicine, law, and psychoanalysis. Inspecting the ways in which postcolonial theorists have "talked back" to colonial ideologues, we will learn to use the analytical tools that a postcolonial perspective offers students of literature and film. Our goal in this section is to enable you to answer the following question: How does a book or film look when viewed through the postcolonial lens? Finally, we will survey new ideas emerging at the intersection of nationhood, postcolonial identity and globalization. Students are expected to make one class presentation and write two short papers.