[English 2310E] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (51 pages long)

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 2310E
• Professor: Taiwo Osinubi

Document Summary

Essentially post-colonial literature, because the literature begins when the language is transported there: a very broad area, one course cannot give us a survey of it, just giving us a. Things fall apart relationship between colonized and colonizer. These literatures are not historical texts !! Commonwealth literature: the british empire made up more than a quarter of the earth at one point. Developed in the 60s, when former colonies became independent. New literatures in english became the new term for commonwealth literature . Literature becoming global leads to a attening out of certain genres: we cannot just use terms that one region knows, you must use global terms. Settler colonies literature is very different from non-settler literatures. Epigraph part of the second coming, w. b. Yeats: major work of modernist poetry, written in 1919 after wwi. Became a classic almost instantly contains battle and loss, common themes of the classic story // simulates aspect of evil culture: cultural codes.