This course will explore different strategies that post-colonial writers have adapted as they have made the novel their own. How did a genre that was so closely tied to modern European culture come to articulate the hopes and despairs of those newly freed from the imperial yoke? In imperial settings ranging from Singapore to Sudan and Colombia, authors from contexts far removed from the world of Austen or Flaubert began to produce what has come to be known as the post-colonial novel. Like other cultural products, the novel traveled to other geographies via the wings of Empire. The novel is often regarded as the pre-eminent literary product of 19th century European bourgeois society: an imaginative space in which individuals forge new possibilities and chart their fate in a world that, in Georg Lukacs’ words, has been abandoned by God. Things Fall Apart: Rupture and Renewal in the Post-Colonial Novel
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