What was the Postcolonial?

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

A survey of the period of writing from1900-2025 that will start in the colonial moment with EM Forster, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Mulk Raj Anand, Rabindranath Tagore; pass through the history of decolonizing movements with post/colonial poets Mohammed Iqbal and Faiz Ahmed Faiz, the Bandung conference and its attendant writings, and early novels of decolonization; to the heyday of the postcolonial novel with Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Arundhati Roy, and close it out with global anglophone fiction including The Parisian by Isabella Hammad and The Haunting of Hajji Hotak by Jamil Jan Kochai. Along the way, we'll be reading key debates in postcolonial studies - subalternity, migrancy, exile - and the shift from postcolonial studies to global anglophone literature now.