VT: Transnational Post-Colonial Global

A study of literature at the limits of nations and national cultures, using theory and cultural studies to consider themes such as: globalization, global English, and the novel; the black Atlantic; the literature of urbaniza- tion; Orientalism and Occidentalism; postcoloniality and world literature. Authors may include, for example, Daniel Alarcon, J.M. Coetzee, Maryse Condé, Rana Dasgupta, Anita Desai, Amitav Ghosh, Yiyun Li, Ruth Ozeki, Salman Rushdie, and Justin Torres.