ENG-322 V. S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie
An intensive study of the works of two major
authors in postcolonial studies. Originally from
the former British colonies and celebrated as
Britain's finest contemporary authors, Naipaul
and Rushdie are paradoxically housed and unhoused
men. Speaking as decentered men, these authors
explore and critique the legacies of colonialism
and the birth pangs of postcolonial nationhood
with force, humor, play, and melancholia, and
along the way celebrate cultural confusion,
fragmentation, hybridity, the cosmopolitan, and
the reclaiming of self.(Literature
Seminars)
Prerequisites: 200-level Introduction to Literary
Studies course (any version).