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What Salman Rushdie so memorably formulated as "The Empire writes back with a vengeance" refers in part to the practice of writers from former British colonies to engage with well-established works from the English motherland by rewriting and thereby interpreting them in the light of their own post/colonial experience. Two such canonical texts which have seen numerous adaptations and rewritings are Shakespeare's The Tempest (1611) and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1713). In this seminar, we will study selected texts by writers representing the New Literatures in English which take to task the Eurocentric bias embodied in canonical English texts and which also reveal in what way literature and culture were put to the service of subjugation and exploitation in the colonizers' quest for power and riches. Required Reading:
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The Canon Rewritten