EN 503 Global Englishes: Literature and Transnational Flows (Spring: 3)
How should the dominance of the English language as the world's lingua franca
of business and culture be assessed? First, we shall situate the spread
of the English language in relation to the British Empire and the U.S. as
a super power. Second, we shall study how post colonial cultures have appropriated
the English language to innovate new dialects and national literatures that
serve to pluralize and indigenize the language. Readings will include a
sampling of Anglophone literatures alongside essays that deal specifically
with the story of contemporary "Englishes."
Kalpana Seshadri
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