LIT5038 Fall 2024 - Stilling

How was modernism received and revised in the postcolonial world? How have postcolonial poets adapted modernist techniques while altering our understanding of modernist cultural practices and institutions? This course will address current debates about cultural nationalism, imperialism, avant-garde poetics, transnationalism, decolonization, and periodization in modernist and postcolonial studies by examining poets such as T.S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, Mina Loy, Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite, Christopher Okigbo, Wole Soyinka, Arun Kolatkar, Lorna Goodison, Mani Rao, and Craig Santos Perez, among others.

Requirements: This course satisfies the requirement for coursework in the following Areas of Concentration: Post-1900 Literature and Culture; Colonial, Postcolonial, and Transnational Literary and Cultural Studies, and a Literary Genre (Poetry). This course also meets the Alterity requirement.