Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: POSTCOLONIALISM AND AFTER ***** Postcolonialism and After: In recent years postcolonial theory has been pressured to rethink the importance of prior knowledge categories that were crucial for establishing its political, ethical and rhetorical power. Now, intellectual debates around globalization and cosmopolitanism have provided a new charge for the literary and cultural critiques of postcolonialism. In this scenario, what is the place of older imaginary maps and epistemological boundaries drawn by oppositions such as the West/East, First/Third, dominant/minority, elite/subaltern, and North/South?