ENGL 6850

Postcolonial Poetry and the Poetics of Relation

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

What kinds of poetry might be usefully characterized as "postcolonial" and what are the stakes of such a designation? What relation do specific poetic features have to geopolitical, cultural, historical, economic circumstances, and to the condition(s) of what has come to be called the "postcolonial" in particular? With special reference to Edouard Glissant's influential concept of a "poetics of relation," attending as well to our own situatedness as readers-perhaps also, though not necessarily, as writers-of poetry within U.S. (and) academic context(s), this seminar will focus on Caribbean and U.S. poetry as especially fruitful sites for exploring a diversity of approaches to these and related questions concerning postcoloniality, poetry, community, language, culture, and identity.

When Offered Fall.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: 15 students.

Comments Co-meets with COML 4290/ENGL 4840/FREN 4350/SPAN 4350.

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