The course observes English-language literature from a global and postcolonial perspective. The course introduces the rise (and fall) of British imperialism and explains how this history gave rise to postcolonial literatures in different parts of the English-speaking world. Specific aspects studied on the course include British colonial ideology, postcolonial identity-formation, counter-narrative, the struggle over different “Englishes”, the global and the local, as well as the adoption, rejection and transformation of imperial literary traditions.