LIT 5235 Fall 2019 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 transnationalism and periodization in modernist and postcolonial studies by examining poets such as T.S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, Mina Loy, Derek Walcott, Kamau Bathwaite, Christopher Okigbo, Wole Soyinka, Agha Shahid Ali, and Arun Kolatkar.
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. This course also meets the Alterity requirement.