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Campus | Haverford |
Semester | Spring 2022 |
Registration ID | ENGLH277B001 |
Course Title | Postcolonial Women Writers |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Africana Studies |
Instructor | Mohan,Rajeswari |
Times and Days | TTh 11:30am-01:00pm
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Room Location | WDS |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2316 This course will focus on contemporary writings by women from a range of postcolonial societies, and examine the ways they intervene in, energize, and complicate the aesthetic and political discourses that shape the norms and hierarchies pertaining to gender and sexuality. In particular, we will explore the ways writers use diverse narrative traditions such as folklore, fable, historiography, and memoir--as well as, more recently, digital writing styles--to give voice to their particular historical, cultural, and political perspectives. We will also trace the play of irony, parody, and mimicry as writers figure their ambivalent positions as women, especially around issues of modernity, immigration, sexuality, religion, nationalism, globalization, development, and neoliberalism. Humanities (Hav: HU) |
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