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| Campus | Haverford |
| Semester | Fall 2022 |
| Registration ID | COMLH377A001 |
| Course Title | Problems in Postcolonial Literature: Violence, Terror, and Identity |
| Credit | 1.00 |
| Department | Comparative Literature |
| Instructor | Mohan,Rajeswari |
| Times and Days | MW 10:00am-11:30am
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| Room Location | LUT211 |
| Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2505 An examination of the rhetorical and narrative strategies adopted by postcolonial texts as they negotiate the aesthetic challenges and political complexities of representing violence and terror. Working with fiction, nonfiction, and film, the course will measure the different effects of realism, magical realism, surrealism, and the grotesque as modes of representing the dialectic of violation and violence. ; Crosslisted: English, Comparative Literature; Prerequisite(s): Two 200-level English courses or instructor consent; Enrollment Limit: 15 Div: III; Humanities, B: Analysis of the Social World, A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (; Hav: HU, B, A) |
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