LITR / CRCL 5734: 
Colonial & Postcolonial Literature

Index to Student Midterms 2003

Below are links to midterm essay exams completed for this course. These midterms appear as submitted. In some cases, transmissions between incompatible softwares stripped out paragraphing, underlines, italics, etc. Therefore these projects may contain errors in editing and format beyond those attributable to human error. These copies are posted, however, so students may share their work and students in future courses may see a range of possible topics for a course of this nature.

Students with work represented below may submit edited versions to replace these submissions, but such upgrades are not required.

Copy of Midterm Assignment


Instructor's choices:

April Davis, "Identity Crisis"

Emily Masterson, "Literature 5734: Initial Impressions and a Brief Survey of Human Identity Themes in Assigned Texts"

Krisann Muskievicz, "Dialogue and Empire"

Ashley Salter, "Intertextuality of Colonial & Postcolonial Literature: Conrad, Achebe, and Walcott"

Rebecca Stasney, "Voice, Perspective, Identity and Individuality"


Charley Bevill, "Pages Across the Sargasso Sea: A Student’s View of Colonial and Post- Colonial Literature"

Robert Buffum, "The Invisible Nation"

Dendy Farrar, "Common Objectives in Colonial Literature:  An Analysis of common threads in Walcott’s “A Far Cry From Africa,” Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness"

Kim Herrera, "Assimilation of an Empire"

Ginger Hilton, "Concepts of Colonial & Postcolonial Literature, a. k. a. Cross-Cultural Texts in Dialogue"

Lisa C. James (CRCL grad), "The Role of Ideologies in the Colonization of America"

Greg Johnson, "Expectations & Realizations, and the Motivations of Chinua Achebe"

Kirby Johnson (undergraduate), "Fighting to be Heard"

Kayla Logan, "The Power of Language and the Lie of Imperialism"

Rosalyn Mack, "Colonization as a Tool of European Empire"

Natalie Martinez, "Tradition vs. Modernity in Colonial and Post-Colonial Texts "

Kristy Pawlak, "Challenging Achebe: How Conrad’s Intent Changes Things"