English 244 - Self, World, Other: Reading the Global Anglophone

This course will introduce you to the study of literature in English across connected pasts and global circulations. We will focus on works from the former British Empire-mainly Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean-though our inquiry extends to the shared and ongoing conditions of colonialism in the 20th and 21st centuries. Through novels, poetry, and cinema, we will explore questions of citizenship and exile, racialization and identity, language and politics, and collective life under globalized capitalism. We will ask: what constitutes the world of literature? Who inhabits its centers and margins? We will explore works by Walcott, Roy, Ngugi, Ghosh, Dangaremba, and Coetzee, amongst others.

Course limited to sophomores, juniors and seniors