Studies in Postcolonial Literature

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This writing-intensive course provides a focused study of works by authors from Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific, Latin America, and/or the Middle East writing after the age of European colonial rule. Specific topic will vary by instructor and may include: the poetics of decolonization, the Negritude movement, or the South Asian novel. Course work will include discussion and research of relevant cultural and historical matters, frequent written analyses of course texts and contexts, sustained analytic essays, and student-led discussion and/or class presentations.