Postcolonial fiction has indeed generated a discourse so hybrid in nature that it is often difficult to perceive the English traditions under the rich overlay of postcolonial histories, traditions, and problems. Routledge's excellent Post-Colonial Studies Reader , containing essays by such individuals as Homi Bhabha, Edward Braithwaite, Frantz Fanon, Stuart Hall, Wilson Harris, Abdul JanMohamed, Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and others, will provide the theoretical, historical, and critical underpinning. Cormac McCarthy is perhaps America's best living novelist, yet he remains comparatively unknown. This seminar will focus exclusively upon McCarthy's prose fiction. It will explore his development as one of America's premiere novelists.
Course work includes group participation, a midterm exam, and a concluding research essay.
This course will study this extraordinary poetic career, which spans the half-century from 1889 to 1939. The class will concentrate on a thorough reading of his poems, some of the most accomplished and ambitious in our language. Two papers, final exam, oral report. We will focus primarily on the issues and methods that have dominated Composition and Technical Communication research in the last 10 years. This course will enable students to understand and to critique existing research.