LIT-338 Topics in Literature and Empire (3)

Topics vary by section. Examines how historically specific modes of imperial practice have been influenced, supported, and challenged by literary culture. Focusing on particular historical periods and national-imperial traditions, the course uses literary texts to explore the relations among nation, capital, and empire. It examines the way literature can serve as a domain of resistance and a site through which to imagine different modes of social organization. Topics include literature of early empire building, global Victorian writing, transatlantic slavery, or the literature of settler colonialism. Repeatable for credit with different topic.