Introduction to Colonial and Decolonizing Literatures

3 credits · Undergraduate

An introduction to colonial and decolonizing literatures and their cultural and historical contexts. The focus will be on defining key terms such as coloniality, Empire, postcolonialism, and delcoloniality as they are related to a range of literary texts. There will be a selection of Anglophone texts from the regions that have been affected by colonialism and imperialism including sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian subcontinent, the Caribbean, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia.