ENGL 21022 - Global Anglophone Literature After 1900

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GLOBAL ANGLOPHONE LITERATURE AFTER 1900 This course explores the rise of English as a so-called “global language” during and after the height of British colonialism and American imperialism. As writers from Africa, South Asia, the Caribbean, Ireland, and Australia embrace a language associated with colonialism and oppression, they have asked: what happens when a language is put to work to colonize? To resist? To claim belonging? Engaging multi-genre writing from across the Global South, this course interrogates the relationship between migration, voice, and power in twentieth and twenty-first century literature in English. Writers include Louise Bennett, NoViolet Bulawayo, Amitav Ghosh, Jamaica Kincaid, and Ken Saro-Wiwa. [AH, GE]