Handbook

This subject surveys important and influential literary works from around the globe. It explores the ways in which literary texts interact with the political and social conditions of empire and nationhood. Works from North and South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific are analysed including those from diasporic and first nations perspectives. Students are encouraged to examine literature's place within broader social and historical systems of representation and power.

• Literature and the Project of Nation (Finding a Voice)
• Theoretical perspectives on the 'Worlding' of literature and literary studies
• National and transnational impulses
• Colonisation, empire and postcolonial responses
• Case studies of specific literary texts from around the world within contexts of production, reception and interpretation