LIT5038-0002 – Spring 2027 – 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, and periodization in modernist and postcolonial studies by examining poets such as T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Mina Loy, Gertrude Stein, Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite, Christopher Okigbo, Wole Soyinka, Arun Kolatkar, Mani Rao, and Craig Santos Perez.
This course fulfills the general literature requirement for one course in Literary and Cultural Studies of the Long 20th and 21st centuries; and a Literary Genre (Poetry). This course also meets the Alterity requirement.