English 875-002
Seminar in Modern Literature: Grammars of Modernity: Colonial and Metropolitan Narratives
Instr: Sangari, Kumkum
Office: CRT 396; 229-2420
e-mail: ksangari@uwm.edu
Office hours:
Course Information: W; 3:30-4:20pm; MER 321
Course Description
This course will explore recompositions of the 'modern' self and female agency through a close reading of selected feminist utopias, feminist detective stories, and servant narratives written by women from metropolitan and colonial locations in Britain, South Asia and America. Were there any similarities in gendering and class processes across the colonial divide? What kind of relationship can be made between 'modern' narratives from different parts of the world? This course will also discuss some earlier definitions that tried to pull a variety of narratives under a single umbrella: namely, world literature, comparative literature, colonial literature, commonwealth literature, national literature and postcolonial literature. The aim of the course is to move towards a relational view of colonial and metropolitan literature.
