COML 6362 - [Bandung Blues: Colonialism After Colonialism]

Spring. 4 credits.

Next offered 2014-2015. Enrollment limited to: 15 students.

N. Melas.

This course will query the failure and persistence of the emancipatory arc of twentieth century colonialism from anticolonialism to decolonization to postcolonialism. What temporalities and regimes of historicity does this interrupted progression imply? What relations between art and politics, or imagination and fact, or expression and sovereignty might it draw? Authors might include, Chakrabarty, Gilroy, Prashad, Scott, Mbembe, Spivak, CLR James, Césaire, Glissant, Senghor, Sembene, Sissako, Condé.