COML 6221

Postcolonial Theory: Then and Now

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2017-2018.

"All decolonization," wrote Frantz Fanon, "is successful at the level of description."  With an focus on the difference between description and critique and on the uneven relation between the academic project underlying the subfield of postcolonial studies and the manifold histories of colonialism and aspirations to decolonization across the twentieth century, this seminar will offer a retrospective survey on the assemblage of texts that has come under the name "Postcolonial Theory" and inquire into its purchase on this present.  Authors may include: Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Frantz Fanon, Amilcar Cabral, Aimé Césaire, Edouard Glissant, Achille Mbembe, David Scott, Enrique Dussel, Ranjana Khanna, Dipesh Chakrabarty.

When Offered Spring.

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