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<span>ENGL 5139-001: Global Literature and Culture, Post/Colonial Fictions of Development (Spring 2019)</span>
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<div><p>鈥淒evelopment鈥濃€攁nd its myriad cognates, including 鈥渦nderdevelopment,鈥� 鈥渦neven development,鈥� 鈥渄eveloping nations,鈥� 鈥渉uman development index鈥� and so forth鈥攈as been the central paradigm framing colonial and postcolonial geopolitical and economic structures over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The aim of this graduate course is twofold: first, we will trace the history and evolution of the term 鈥渄evelopment鈥�; its historical impact on colonial, postcolonial, and international forms of governance; and its imbrication with other political discourses like human rights and gender equality. Second, the course will read twentieth- and twenty-first century colonial, postcolonial, and world Anglophone fiction to see how various novelistic forms, especially the Bildungsroman鈥攖he quintessential narrative of development鈥攁dapt themselves to different socio-historical conditions of development and intervene in broader political debates. The reading list is still in flux, but will likely include theorists such as: Arturo Escobar, James Ferguson, Amartya Sen, Giovanni Arrighi, and David Harvey. We may also look at a range of primary materials, including government documents on colonial development and World Bank and IMF reports. Authors we may read include: Joseph Conrad鈥檚 Nostromo, Evelyn Waugh鈥檚 Black Mischief, Joyce Cary鈥檚 Mister Johnson, Elizabeth Bowen鈥檚 The Heat of the Day, or Mulk Raj Anand鈥檚 Untouchable from the first half of the century; and Ngugi Wa Thiong鈥橭鈥檚 Petals of Blood, Ayi Kwei Armah鈥檚 The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born; Tsitsi Dangarembga鈥檚 Nervous Conditions; Jamaica Kincaid鈥檚 A Small Place; Zakes Mda鈥檚 Heart of Redness; Chris Abani鈥檚 GraceLand, or Zadie Smith鈥檚 NW from the second half of the century.</p>
<p><strong><i>MA-Lit Course Designation: Literature After 1800, Multicultural/Postcolonial Literature, C (Bodies/Identities/Collectivities), D (Cultures/Politics/Histories)</i></strong></p></div>
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<span>ENGL 5139-001: Global Literature and Culture, The Global Eighteenth</span>
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<div><p>This course focuses on the role played by the intersection of commerce and culture in the creation of a global imaginary in the long eighteenth century. In particular, we shall study the feedback loop that obtained between financial capitalism and joint-stock companies like the South Sea, Mississippi, and East India Companies on the one hand and the worldwide movements of people, things, and discursive and visual practices on the other.</p>
<p>We shall analyze a broad range of texts and objects, including prose narratives, poems, plays, essays, letters, paintings, prints, places, and things associated with movements of people and goods within Britain and between Britain, other European powers, the Ottoman Empire, the Americas, Africa, the Indian Ocean, India, China, and the South Pacific.</p>
<p>Sub-topics include:</p>
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<li>The role played by trading and joint-stock companies in turning the British and European eighteenth century into a global era marked by European expansion and multi-directional encounters;</li>
<li>The construction of Britishness through competition with other European powers in and outside Europe;</li>
<li>The ever increasing role played by colonialism and the enslavement of people in the creation of Britain鈥檚 self-definition as a free, polite, and</li>
<li>commercial people;</li>
<li>The impact of globalization on taste, aesthetics, and the culture of sensibility and sentiment;</li>
<li>The gendering of the economy, credit, and colonial power;</li>
<li>Proto-environmental concerns in depictions of the natural world and domesticated landscapes;</li>
<li>Economic thought and moral sentiments;</li>
<li>The founding of New Orleans in 1718;</li>
<li>Globalism versus universalism (or global commerce and universal rights);</li>
<li>The respective roles of texts and images.</li>
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<p>Works by such authors and artists as Aphra Behn, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Maria Sibylla Merian, Daniel Defoe, Alexander Pope, Mary Wortley Montagu, Abb茅 Pr茅vost, Jonathan Swift, Bernard Mandeville, Montesquieu, William Hogarth, Mirza Sheikh I鈥檛sesamuddin, Denis Diderot, Maria Edgeworth, Anna Seward, Ignatius Sancho, George Robertson, James Gillray, William Blake, and Bernardin de Saint-Pierre.</p>
<p>If you would like to see an advance copy of the syllabus or have questions about the course, feel free to contact Professor Labio at <a href="mailto:labio@colorado.edu" rel="nofollow">labio@colorado.edu</a>.</p>
<p><strong><em>MA-Lit Course Designation: D (Cultures/Politics/Histories), Literature Before 1800</em></strong></p></div>
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