Legacy Course Catalog
ENGL 592A - Postcolonialism And The New Postglobal Studies
| Effectivity: | 01/07/2008 - 05/03/2008 @ Purdue West Lafayette Traditional |
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| Credits: | 3 |
| Instructional Types: | Lec |
| Usually Offered: | fal spr |
| Short Title: | Postcol&Postglobl Stdy |
| Description: | This course aims to accomplish three closely related objectives. First, students will gain a thorough understanding of globalization as the single most important political, economic, and cultural force in the world today. Second, we will examine how globalization impacts literature both as an object of study and as a product in the global economy. Third, we will through our readings construct a genealogy of transition between postcolonial and American to globalization studies on the other as the dominant form of comparative literary and cultural analysis. Seen in this context, the study of literature necessarily extends from the narrowly cultural into fields such as economics, sociology, geography, and others, as we consider the material conditions that underlie the production of the literary text. Literary texts will include Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss, Gary Shteyngart's Absurdistan, and some shorter pieces. Critical texts will include David Harvey's A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Amitava Kumar's edited collection World Bank Literature, Robert Young's Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction, and Volume 1 of the journal The Global South, and a selection of shorter excerpts from other recent texts. Students will write a final seminar-length essay, a shorter conference-length paper (8-10 pp.) that they will present to the class during the semester, and a book review (3-4 pp.) of a text from a recommended list I will compile later in the fall. |
| School: | College Of Liberal Arts |
| Department: | English |
| Credit By Exam: | NO |
| Repeatable Flag: | YES |
| Temporary Flag: | YES |
| Full Time Privilege Flag: | NO |
| Honors Flag: | NO |
| Variable Title Flag: | NO |
Fall 2007 *** indicates the course was still an active course and was transferred to the Banner Catalog effective Spring 2008. This course was not expired Fall 2007.
