Browse Hierarchy ESH7076: The Global Contemporary

This module will explore contemporary writing from around the world, using different postcolonial approaches to frame our discussions. We will consider these texts in relation to recent social, political, and cultural developments across the globe. Predominantly examining anglophone texts, but also including some texts in translation, this module will think about how contemporary postcolonial literature interrogates and re-examines topics such as nationhood, migration, identity, resistance, decolonisation, environmental crisis, conflict, the politics of the literary market place, and their gendered, racialised and classed dynamics in the 21st century.