Legacy Course Catalog
ENGL 673S - Subaltern/Postcolonial
| Effectivity: | 08/20/2007 - 12/15/2007 @ Purdue West Lafayette Traditional |
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| Credits: | 3 |
| Instructional Types: | Lec |
| Usually Offered: | fal spr |
| Short Title: | Subaltern/Postcolonial |
| Description: | This section of the Postcolonial Seminar will focus on literary representations of subalternity, a contested but also formative term over the last two decades of postcolonial studies. In addition to a small sampling of works from the 19th century, we will focus on 20th and 21st century literature, film, criticism, and theory from three broad locations: Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia. We will provisionally define subalterns as those who function at a great remove-some might say an absolute remove-from various forms of material and cultural privilege within any culture. Many of the better-known postcolonial writers today come from relatively privileged enclaves within the third world; our focus, in contrast, will be on representations by-and of-the most disenfranchised subaltern groups from these locations. While paying some attention to the ways in which subaltern groups have been represented by relatively privileged writers, we will focus primarily on literary and cultural representations by these groups: our readings include slave narratives, indenture testimonials, fiction, poetry, street theater, and memoirs by working-class collectives within the Caribbean, religious and sexual minorities in Africa and South Asia, and dalit ("downtrodden") South Asian groups whose very touch and presence was thought to "pollute" others. Requirements will be active participation; short paper (8-10 pages); term pater (25 pages); class-presentations. |
| 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.
