EN 855 British Literature and Postcolonial Criticism (Spring: 3)
Historians such as Bernard Cohn have taught us that analyses of British
Literature and Culture will be incomplete if we do not assume England and
its colonies as a single unit of analysis. However, the translation of this
historical wisdom to literary analysis demands not only an understanding
of colonial policy but also a re-invention of our reading practices. We
shall review the premises of postcolonial studies and its various approaches
to canonical British literature by asking how Britain’s colonial activities
from the 18th to the 20th centuries affected representations of the domestic
space.
Kalpana Seshadri
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