Class Detail

Introduces students to a selection of postcolonial theory and texts. Critical approach designations: Geographies, Power and Subjectivities. May be repeated for credit.

Topic: "Decolonization in the First Person" - Anticolonial and decolonial writers have embraced political manifesto, literature, memoir, history, and philosophy as genres through which they seek to contest imperial rule and its legacies. This class focuses on the interplay between all of those in first-person critical theory or "postcolonial autotheory." How does an "I" come to speak as a resistant, insurgent "we"? How does first person narrative embody and express political dissent and revolutionary hope? Authors include Frantz Fanon, C.L.R. James, Jomo Kenyatta, Ngugi wa-Thiongo, Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Dionne Brand, Gloria Anzaldua, bell hooks, and others. Satisfies the Global Distribution Requirement.

Days & Times	Room	Instructor	Meeting Dates
TuTh 03:20PM-04:55PM	Porter Acad 144	Cooppan,V.	04/01/24 - 06/07/24