Colgate University

First-Year Course Offerings — Fall 2019

FSEM 164   Justice/Power-Postcolonial Lit
Credits1
RestrictionsNo 2022 2021 2020 Open to first-years only
Pre-Requisites
Co-Requisites
Core Area
Area of InquiryHuman Thought and Expression
Liberal Arts Practices

Faculty Profile for Professor Rajasingham

Justice and Power in Postcolonial Literature

An introduction to significant debates and texts in the field of postcolonial literatures. Explores how the field engages with questions of race, gender, sexuality, class, caste, and migration. Considers how writers located in the global south or in the West as migrants navigate their spaces when faced with inequality and marginalization. Examines both the legacies that empires have left and the nature of new empires that are being constructed. Fulfills the postcolonial requirement of the English major. Students who successfully complete this seminar will receive credit for ENGL 202 and satisfy one half of the Human Thought and Expression area of inquiry requirement.

Professor Nimanthi Rajasingham teaches literatures from the global south, such as South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and the Middle-East, and Immigrant fictions from the US, UK and Canada. My teaching also uses critical race and feminist studies methodologies.