Description from OSU English website. Course reading list coming soon!
English 6760: Introduction to Graduate Study in Postcolonial Literature and Theory
Instructor and Title: Pranav Jani – Colonialism and Resistance: Literature, Theory, History
Course Description: This seminar is designed as a comprehensive, interdisciplinary introduction to the field of Postcolonial Studies, with a specific emphasis on the histories, theories, and literatures of anti-colonial thought and action. At one level, we will read literatures linked to a variety of colonized and postcolonial spaces, especially South Asia, Africa, Palestine, and the Caribbean. We will examine similarities and differences in genre, theme, and notions of self, family, and nation as artists explore and articulate resistance to various colonizers. At another level, we will learn and engage with conversations and debates in and around postcolonial theory, especially with regard to feminism, nationalism, and subalternity. Finally, we will situate these discussions of literature and theory within larger historical and political contexts to understand different colonialisms and the complexities of anti-colonial resistance.
Texts: The God of Small Things; Men in the Sun; The Wretched of the Earth; Postcolonialisms: An Anthology of Culture Theory and Criticism