Post-Colonial Novels
F06
April Bernard
One of the most significant legacies of the British Empire was its imposition of English on many regions of the world. In recent decades many writings from the former Colonies have proved that they have made English their own. Peter Carey from Australia, Michael Ondaatje from Sri Lanka, Sheila Kohler and J.M. Coetzee from South Africa, Caryl Phillips and V.S. Naipaul from the West Indies, Salman Rushdie from India, and Bapsi Sidhwa from Pakistan are all superb writers in English whose work we will read. Each student will be expected to contribute an extensively researched class presentation on contextual material, to write several short papers, and to provide a final longer paper for class discussion and then revision.