ENGL 383: (Un)Settling Homeland

1 unit
Prerequisites: Completion with a 2.0 or better of at least three units in English, including one unit numbered ENGL 220 to ENGL 289; or permission of instructor.
A consideration of the relationship between domestic practices and national projects (such as colonialism and imperialism) in literature. We will draw on feminist and postcolonial theory to examine novels and short stories by a diverse range of writers and study how gender, racial, ethnic, and national identities inform the histories and/of nation represented (and negotiated) in fiction. L. Brown