Course Description
1900-present Course. Ethnic/Postcolonial Course, British Literature Course and 20th-Century Contemporary Literature Course. This advanced course will be devoted to exploring the history of the Modernist movement through considering how Modernism was constructed through the involvement of European artists with faraway, "exotic" colonies. How did these influential works of art and literature draw their aesthetic value from their encounter with Empire? How did the "non-European" world then figure into Modernist texts and images-how can we see Africa, Asia and Latin America dramatized into a quintessentially "European" movement? Through studying Modernism as a moment of "cultural globalization", this course will thus introduce students to connections between politics, aesthetics and empire.
Course Attributes
International/Multicultural -I
Units
4
