Course Details
Country:
Taiwan
Institution:
National Taiwan University
Course Title:
Fiction: Postcolonial Asia
Course Number:
FL4179
Course Description:
This course introduces students to fictional and other critical and cultural perspectives from the postcolonial world. This semester, we will focus on selected texts from postcolonial Asia. Our course will begin by critically investigating the concept of the nation—what Benedict Anderson has famously called an “imagined community.” We will explore this concept by reading and discussing texts representing the complexities of imagined communities in Taiwan, India, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines, texts that also represent uneven power relations with China, Japan, the UK, the US, and elsewhere. We will ask: why should these texts and ideas matter to us now? Students are expected to attend regularly (while also carefully complying with the latest novel coronavirus regulations), to read with care and curiosity, and to bring an open mind to course assignments and class discussion. We will reflect on our previously held commonsense ideas and test them against our course readings.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
FRLN 330
Attachment Files:
Fiction- Postcolonial Asia.pdf
