LIT 389 Postcolonial Theory

This course examines major themes, issues, and discourses relating to the field of postcolonial theory in literature and the humanities. Students may read critical (canonical) texts of postcolonial theory by such figures as Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Homi K. Bhabha and Partha Chatterjee. The readings will be distributed across the following categories: “Issues and Debates,” “Universality and Difference,” “Nationalism,” “Hybridity,” “Race,” “Diaspora,” and “The Sacred.” Prerequisite: FCO 105.

3 credit hours