LIT 5235 Fall 2018 Stilling
How was modernism received and revised in the postcolonial world? How have postcolonial poets adapted and indigenized modernist poetics while altering our understanding of the development, transmission, and geographical reach of modernist cultural practices and institutions? This course will address current debates about transnationalism and periodization in both modernist and postcolonial studies by examining a range of Anglophone poets from Britain, America, Ireland, the West Indies, Africa, and South Asia. The poets we study will include the usual modernist suspects, such as Eliot, Yeats, and Pound, as well as a diverse selection of postcolonial poets, including Derek Walcott, Kamau Bathwaite, Christopher Okigbo, Wole Soyinka, Agha Shahid Ali, Arun Kolatkar, Una Marson, Imtiaz Dharker, and Medbh McGuckian.
Requirements: This course satisfies the requirement for coursework in the following Areas of Concentration: Post-1900 Literature and Culture; and Colonial, Postcolonial, and Transnational Literary and Cultural Studies; a Literary Genre (poetry). This course also meets the Alterity requirement.