ENGL 072. The Anticolonial Novel

In this course, we will survey global fiction from the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries, tracing an arc of modernist literary practices that extends beyond the largely American and European coterie of high modernists. We will put pressure on the geopolitics of literary modernism(s), exploring how historical currents and theoretical frameworks breed new critical lenses for modernist form. And we will ask: what does it mean to be modernist?
20th/21st c.
GATEWAY English Literature.
Humanities.
1 credit.
Eligible for GLBL-core
Fall 2026. Patnaik.
Catalog chapter: English Literature
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature

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