Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisites: courses 10A, 10B, 10C. Recommended: courses 130, 131. Exploration of methodological, aesthetic, and theoretical implications of postcolonial and transnational approaches to study of literature and culture. Topics may include theories of subaltern, orientalist, feminist, and/or indigenous representation and histories and may address representational issues of national sovereignty in wake of globalization and neocolonialism. May be repeated for credit with topic or instructor change. P/NP or letter grading.

Units: 5.0