EN220: Moral Choices

As England withdrew from its empire after World War II, how did writers living outside the United Kingdom respond to the history of colonialism and the aesthetics of modernism within a global context? In fourteen original essays, edited by Richard Begam and Michael Valdez Moses, adistinguished group of scholars considers these questions in relation to novelists, playwrights, and poets living in English-speaking countries around the world.

English Heart, Hindi Heartland examines Delhi's postcolonial literary world--its institutions, prizes, publishers, writers, and translators, and the cultural geographies of key neighborhoods--in light of colonial histories and the globalization of English.

Elleke Boehmer's work on the crucial intersections between independence, nationalism and gender has already proved canonical in the field. This book combines her keynote essays on the mother figure and the postcolonial nation, with incisive new work on male autobiography, "daughter" writers, the colonial body, the trauma of the post-colony, and the nation in a transnational context.

With it's innovative narrative structure and its controversial explorations of race, gender and empire, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is a landmark of 20th century literature that continues to resonate to this day. This book brings together leading scholars to explore the full range of contemporary philosophical and critical responses to the text.

Remembering a Legend: Chinua Achebe recaptures for the literary world the inimitable legacies of Chinua Achebe (1930-2013), Africa's leading novelist and literary philosopher of the 20th century. It addresses the questions of Achebe's role in establishing the African art of the novel, his theories and standards for the criticism of African writing.

Jean Rhys (1890-1979) is the author of five novels and over seventy short stories. She has played a major figure in debates attempting to establish the parameters of postcolonial and particularly Caribbean studies, and although she has long been seen as a modernist writer, she has also been marginalized as one who is not quite in, yet not quite out, either.

As a dramatist, novelist, short-story writer, filmmaker, essayist and public speaker, Zimbabwean author Dangarembga has occupied the forefront of Postcolonial Studies for over a decade, broaching issues such as gender relations, AIDS, colonial education, development and traditional versus modern modes of living, and gaining an audience in academies world-wide. These essays, divided into three sections, Critiques of Postcolonial Rhetoric, Material Culture, and Postcolonialism and Subjectivity, reflect the wide variety of readers and approaches her work has attracted.