ENGL 487 - 001

Regular Academic Session

4769

Graduate

3 units

Graded

This course examines the issues of modern-day colonization as depicted in selected fiction, drama, and poetry from Africa, South Asia, the West Indies, and Australia.

Department Consent Required

World Literature and Colonial Inheritance ¿[...]here we are all sticky with the stinking stains of history.¿ - House of Hunger, Dambudzo Marechera. The stain, the shadow, the mark, the curse¿these tropes often appear in global anglophone literature as a means of representing the obscenity of the postcolonial nation-state (Mbembe) and the annihilatory practices of settler-colonialism (Wolfe) as they converge on the colonized subject. These ¿imprints¿ seek to represent the complexity of coloniality as an unwelcome inheritance¿a past that is continuously reinvented and reinvigorated in the present under new historical, economic, and political conditions. This class will explore and assess a genealogy of aesthetic practice within postcolonial literature that foregrounds ¿inheritance¿ as a problem of subjectivity where the postcolonial subject struggles to contend with dominating forms of power, that traverse and enfold them. This class requires department consent. Please contact Dr. Ian Cornelius at icornelius@luc.edu or (773) 508-2332 for permission.

Madeleine Reddon

TuTh 4:15PM - 5:30PM

01/13/2025 - 04/26/2025

In person

Lake Shore Campus

Lake Shore Campus

Open

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