ENGL 2047 - World Literatures in English

This course is designed to provide an understanding of a range of recent world literatures in English. The particular countries, authors and genres covered will vary from year to year, depending on staff availability. We will focus on narrative fiction, but will sometimes also include drama, film and poetry. Here you will gain an understanding of literary works in both their local context and their global transformations. We will consider the key questions of postcolonial theory, assess the usefulness of key postcolonial concepts and concerns in relation to the set texts, and at the same time focus on the rich specificities of the selected literary works in order to answer for ourselves why so many of them have been so highly acclaimed internationally, and why each of them is worth studying.