ENGL-385 Introduction to Post-Colonial Literature
Offered: Fall 2008
Description: The voice of the silenced. Study of English-language literature in former British colonies. Focus on problems of identity —individual, cultural, social and national— caused by the superimposition of the colonizing English literary tradition on indigenous cultures. Authors studied include Nadine Gordimer, Rudyard Kipling, V.S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys, Salman Rushdie and Derek Walcott. (3 Credits)
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