The course explores postcolonial and contemporary literature from Africa, the Caribbean, South Asia, and other regions formerly under colonial rule, focusing on how these literatures respond to and critique colonialism, identity, and cultural transformation.

Contemporary Indian Literature in English Translation introduces learners to significant Indian literary works translated into English. It highlights India’s diverse cultural, linguistic, and social realities through modern literary expressions.

The course studies the traditions of India's folk narratives, language, visual arts, and their cultural significance, focusing on the forms, functions, sources, and classifications of folk literature.

The course covers the development and forms of American drama including musicals, farce, naturalism/realism, twentieth-century poetic drama, absurd drama, expressionism, and avant-garde movements.

The course covers the development, themes, and key poets of American poetry from the colonial period through the modern period, including writers like Philip Freneau, Phillis Wheatley, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, and Langston Hughes.