ENGL 474 - Postcolonial Literature and Theory

5 credit hours

A study the development of colonial discourse theory and postcolonial literary theory in the writings of Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Robert Young and others. These theories will be applied to selected literary works, such as Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah, and Nadine Gordimer’s Burgher’s Daughter. NW