- Teacher: Katherine Hallemeier
This lecture course offers an introduction to literatures in English that respond to ongoing colonial and imperial histories
following the anti-colonial nationalist movements of the mid-20th century. Readings will span genres (novels, nonfiction,
poetry, and short stories), as well as nations and peoples (India, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Martu, Mississauga Nishnaabeg,
Trinidad, South Africa). These literary works will be linked, however, insofar as they provide the opportunity to consider
the relation between colonialism, educational institutions, and decolonization. The course will include an introduction to
key terms in postcolonial studies and discussion of the global politics of writing in English in the late 20th- and early 21st-
centuries.
Texts for purchase: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, “The River Between” (Penguin, 2015, ISBN 9780143107491, or any edition),
Tsitsi Dangarembga “Nervous Conditions” (Ayebia Clarke, 2004, ISBN 9780954702335, or any edition), Doris
Pilkington/Nugi Garimara, “Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence,” (University of Queensland Press, 2013, ISBN
9780702233555, or any edition), J.M. Coetzee, “Disgrace” (Penguin, 2000, ISBN 0140296409, or any edition). All will be
made available at Payot, Rue de la Confédération. Other texts will be made available on Moodle