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This course examines the idea of the postcolonial via a close reading of some of the major works now collected under the term. The course examines themes and techniques from a formal and historical perspective, asking what the “postcolonial” means and whether it is a plausible and productive concept. The course concentrates on writers from countries primarily, but not exclusively, colonized by the British. Topics include decolonization, the appropriation of the colonizer’s language, hybridity, exile, the necessity of alienation and the relationship of the postcolonial to the postmodern. The function of orientalism, the role of censorship, the political and historical importance of the development of a literary consciousness and the role of the figure of the author will also play a role in the course.
