LITR 5734: Colonial & Postcolonial Literature

Sample Student Essays, 1996

Linked below are several student essays from the summer 1996 offering of the course. These sample essays are offered primarily as models of possible research topics and techniques or for review in student journals. These papers represent the students' original, uncorrected submissions. Also, because these essays were scanned from paper copies, editing problems may remain.

Instructor's comments appear at the end of each essay. Some essays include proposals and progress reports.

John Eberhart, "Return to Personal Spirit" (D. H. Lawrence's The Plumed Serpent and N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn)

Duncan I. Hasell, "The Secret Scourge: Metaphors of Hybridization and Contamination between the English and the Irish" (Spenser and Yeats)

Prathima Maramraj, "Comparing Patriarchal Domination to Colonial Imperialism" (Freedom at Midnight by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins and Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai)