VT: Transnational Post-Colonial Global Literature

A study of literature at the limits of nations and national cultures, using theory and cultural studies to consider themes such as: globalization, global English, and the novel; the black Atlantic; the literature of urbaniza- tion; Orientalism and Occidentalism; postcoloniality and world literature. Authors may include, for example, Daniel Alarcon, J.M. Coetzee, Maryse Condé, Rana Dasgupta, Anita Desai, Amitav Ghosh, Yiyun Li, Ruth Ozeki, Salman Rushdie, and Justin Torres. May be repeated for credit if the topic is different.

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