Global Anglophone Poetry

Catalog description

The course will focus on modern poetry -- its major writers, texts, performances, and movements -- from the Anglophone world, including Australia, Canada, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, South Asia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Students will learn to recognize forms, traditions, and literary devices of poetry written in English; to analyze the political and economic impacts of imperialism, colonization, and globalization on culture and creativity; to examine the invention, renewal, and circulation of poetic genres of self-expression and community engagement; and to understand how poetry illuminates global histories of race, indigeneity, gender and sexuality. A student may not receive credit for both ENGL 364 and ENGL 364C . Offered as ENGL 364 , ENGL 364C , ENGL 464 , HUMN 364 and HUMN 464 . Counts as a Understanding Global Perspectives course.