ENGL 265DC: DECOLONIZATION

University of California, Santa Barbara

Since colonization began it has been resisted by visions of a world beyond the colonizer-colonized relationship. This course considers the long histor y of struggles against colonialism and empire through the lens of Indigenou s and non-Western thought. We examine creative and theoretical texts that p ose social, material, and epistemological questions raised by the possibili ty of an end to empire, violence, extraction, othering, and domination. We also consider the breadth of Indigenous and decolonial narrative, theory, a nd praxis from the personal to the political as we locate internal tensions , contradictions, synergies, and moments of generative possibility for lite rary production, activism, and theory.