Subject Area: English

This course investigates some of the major questions and critical debates that arise in literatures written in English by colonised and formerly colonised peoples around the globe. This course will examine aspects of colonial and postcolonial literary representation in relation to race, gender, geography, ethnicity, indigeneity and language transformation. The Oriental, the global, the cosmopolitan, the subaltern, the third world and the settler colonial are the key areas of postcolonial literary theory that will support work in this course. This course allows students to reflect on national, transnational and global spheres of cultural production and to think in structured ways about the emerging new field of world literature.