Kajian Bahasa Inggris pada Program Magister (KBI)

This course surveys theory and practice of comparative literature. The discipline of comparative literature emerging in the 19th century following the rise of nation states has now evolved into a discipline informed by cultural studies, postcolonial theory, and critical theory in its analytical procedure. Since theoretically this discipline is not separable from current literary theory, this course focuses on ways of comparing literature across languages and cultures to make literary studies less Eurocentric and American-centric.

The emergence of English as a lingua franca has made British Literature (thus include literatures from ex-colonized countries) irrelevant when examined without competing histories of race, ethnicity, gender, disability, post-coloniality, and sexuality nation, gender and class within today’s multiplicity of socio-political, historical and ideological contexts. This course will examine afresh selected canonical works from Shakespeare to the more recent “British” literary texts. These texts will be explored in conjunction with authors and texts from non-western literary traditions to see their postcolonial trajectories.