LITERATURE AND THE EMPIRE

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Ethnic/Postcolonial Literature Course and British Literature Course. This course will focus on 19th- and 20th-century fiction and the ways in which it illuminates and is illuminated by the history of the British empire in Africa and India. Novels by such writers as Rudyard Kipling, R.L. Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, and E.M. Forster will present the evolving imperial view while those by such writers as Salman Rushdie, Gita Meta, Chinua Achebe and Buchi Emecheta will present an alternative vision of the British empire and its aftermath in their countries.