Post-Colonial Literature

This course examines postcolonial literary texts written in English,specific to nations and regions that were once European colonies,especially in Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Caribbean. The focus is onliterature of empire, especially, but not limited to, works of variousgenres produced in the years leading up to, during, and after thestruggles for ‘independence,’ including works by such writers asChinua Achebe, Chimamanda Adichie, Michelle Cliff, J. M. Coetzee, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Jamaica Kincaid, Imbolo Mbue, V.S. Naipaul, Ng ugiwa Thiong'o,Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Arundhati Roy, and Salman Rushdie.