HISTORY 234G: Narrating the British Empire (HISTORY 334G)
This course will explore the historical and cultural reality of the British Empire in a global and comparative context, through works of fiction and non-fiction, history, memoir and a range of cultural chronicles. What relationship did British colonialism have with modernity and the European Enlightenment, and with neoliberalism and globalization that followed decolonization? Texts: CLR James's
Beyond a Boundary,, Jamaica Kincaid's
A Small Place, Nirad Chaudhuri's
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, Alan Paton's
Cry, The Beloved Country, Witi Ihimaera's
Dear Miss Mansfield.
Last offered: Spring 2015
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
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