Course Details
Country:
United Kingdom
Institution:
University of York
Course Title:
Postcolonial Writing: Literature & Resistance
Course Number:
ENG00019H
Course Description:
Stendhal famously described the presence of politics in literature as a ‘pistol shot in the middle of a concert’. Yet since its inception, the field of postcolonial literary studies has been concerned with the ways in which writers have represented and opposed forms of political, social, and cultural oppression, making it difficult to separate a text’s aesthetic qualities from its political intent. Some critics (e.g. Harlow) have gone so far as to argue that ‘Western’ critics often misread works of ‘resistance literature’, assessing them in terms of their uses of aesthetics, metaphor, or human ‘universals’ rather than in terms of their success as documents of resistance. In this module, we will consider the usefulness of the idea of ‘resistance literature’ for describing anticolonial and postcolonial writing that depicts, advocates, and/or carries out acts of political and cultural resistance. While our emphasis will be on texts that express resistance to colonialism
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
Pending For Approval
Course URL:
https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/ENG00019H/latest
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