Graduate Studies Postcolonial Encounters

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Postcolonial Encounters focuses on the interdisciplinary aspects of literatures that have been historically silenced by the mechanisms of the colonial powers. This course will attempt to retrieve from the margins those voices that Gayatri Spivak (following Antonio Gramsci) has called 'subaltern.' As such, our task will be to theorize the notions of power and powerlessness, margin and periphery, first and third world, nationality, race, identity, and globalization via the close readings of various postcolonial texts.