We are excited to announce that Dr. Mukoma Wa Ngugi, associate professor of English at Cornell University, will be a visiting fellow this fall and teach a seminar, “The Global South vs Postcolonial Studies in the Academy.” The course is open to all graduate and certificate students and will run from September 9-13. We invite any interested graduated student to register. A public lecture will also be given during the week.
Course Information:
Ethnic Studies 890: Critical Issues in US and Global Society: Race, Social Justice and Inequality
The driving dialectic in post-colonial studies has been the colonizer/colonized, or the Third Word vs. the West. But slowly the field is letting go of this “arrested dialectic” and in its place various horizontal triangulations are emerging. In this course, we will be primarily using global south concepts to talk about African literature and languages in the age of an English metaphysical empire, politics of translation, and identity/global blackness via Africans and African Americans.
September 9-13
9:30-11:45 MTWTHF
Andrews Hall 111
If interested, please register through your MyRed account. For questions and concerns, contact James Garza at jgarza2@unl.edu.
