Literature and Empire

Catalog description

This course examines literature written in English from countried that were once part of the British Empire or some other European empire. The class will approach this literature from a variety of thematic, historical, and/r generic perspectives. Topics under consideration will vary, but the course will often discuss matters of colonialism, race, and ethinicity, as well as matters of religion, gender, sexual orientation, and global contexts. The principle emphasis of the works in this course will be the consideration of non/European/ non-American societies and the differences between their culture and that of Europeans or Americans. This class will accordingly prepare students to consider social and culteral problems from a variety of cultural perspectives. This course meets the Bachelor of Arts degree requirements. This course may be used as English Major elective credits or as credit towards the English Minor.