Anticolonial/Decolonial: Literature and Film
ENGL 239
Spring 2025
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01
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| Crosslisting:
WLIT 208 |
| Course Cluster and Certificates: African Studies, African Studies Minor |
This course examines how histories of twentieth century anti-imperialist writing and cinema are relevant for contemporary decolonizing agendas. We will compare works by colonial and postcolonial theorists, writers and filmmakers, to examine how literature and film address processes of colonization, anti-imperialist struggle, decolonization, and neo-colonization. Readings will be drawn from a range of countries in both the Global North and South and films include Ousmane Sembène's La Noire de.../Black Girl (1966), Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers (1966), Sarah Maldoror's Léon G. Damas (1994), Stephanie Black's Life & Debt (2001), and Ciro Guerra's Waiting for the Barbarians (2019). |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (ENGL)(ENGL-Literature) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 75% - 89% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Aime Casaire NOTEBOOK OF A RETURN TO THE NATIVE LAND (1939)
J.M. Coetzee, WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS (1980)
Tsitsi Dangarembga, NERVOUS CONDITIONS (1988)
Jamaica Kincaid, A SMALL PLACE (1988)
Albert Memmi, THE COLONIZER AND THE COLONIZED (1957)
Okot p'Bitek, THE SONG OF LAWINO (1966)
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Examinations and Assignments:
Weekly responses and 3 short essays
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Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course contributes to the following ENGL major requirements:
Literary History 3, Theory, World Literature. |
| Instructor(s): Saint,Lily Leopold Times: .M.W... 02:50PM-04:10PM; Location: B2B3 SOUTH; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: 3 | JR major: 4 | | |
| Seats Available: 0 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 2 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: 4 | FR: 3 |
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