ENGL 439A

Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Studies

Units: 1.5, Hours: 3-0

An introduction to the major debates of colonial and postcolonial studies; notions of "colonialism" in such areas as Africa, India, Latin America, Australia, and the Caribbean; concepts such as nationhood, community, diaspora, exile, and home; recent political, ecological, gender, and subaltern movements; works by such authors as Conrad, Rushdie, Head and Said.

Note: Credit will be granted for only one of 439A, 439.

Formerly: part of 439

Undergraduate course in English offered by the Department of English in the Faculty of Humanities.