Poetry and Poetics of Resistance

6 Credits

Provides students with a global viewpoint of poetry and poetics of resistance, tracing similarities and finding differences in the various poetic approaches used by authors who live in nations without a State, exiled writers, and dissident voices within mainstream cultural politics. Students will examine different works on exile, both physical and internal, by poets such as Homi Bhabha, Julia Kristeva, Arjun Appadurai, Salman Rushdie, George Lamming, and Edward Said.