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Literature in the World: A View from Cape Town

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Meg Samuelson
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Returning Recently to Teach at My Alma Mater, The University of Cape Town, I Was Amazed to Find That the Undergraduate curriculum to which I had been exposed at the dawn of the post-apartheid era remained substantially unaltered. With the exception of an experimentally convened introductory year that reverses chronology with interesting effects, the English major continues to plot a literary history across four inherited periods: Shakespeare and Co., Romance to Realism, Modernism, and Contemporary Literature, which collapses a previous bifurcation of the capstone course into Postmodernism or Postcolonialism.

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correspondents at large
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PMLA , Volume 131 , Issue 5: Special Topic: Literature in the World , October 2016 , pp. 1544 - 1547
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2016

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