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American Literature – II (Fiction and Drama)
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The students will: CO 126. Identify the diverse forms of colonial and postcolonial writings CO 127. knowledge of the historical context of literary production and reception CO 128. Investigate the application of literary theory to postcolonial literature CO 129. Identify the key concepts of race and nationalism in literary contexts CO 130. Analyse and evaluate the postcolonial aspects of the literary works |
Approach in teaching: Discussion, Demonstration via Presentation Learning activities for the students: Report-writing, Seminar-presentation |
Report-writing, Presentation, Viva-Voce |
Frantz Fanon
“On National Culture”
(from The Wretched of the Earth)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Can the Subaltern Speak?
(from Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture)
Homi K. Bhabha
“The Locations of Culture: The Commitment to Theory”
(from The Location of Culture)
Salman Rushdie
“Imaginary Homelands”
(from Imaginary Homelands: Essays in Criticism)
Meena Alexander
Blood Line
Everything Strikes Loose
South of the Nilgiris
R. Parthasarathy
From Exile
From Homecoming
Arun Kolatkar
the Boatride
The Turnaround
Nissim Ezekiel
from Ruminations
Goodbye Party …
Poem of the Separation
Michael Ondaatje
The English Patient
Source Books:
Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture, Routledge, 1994.
Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth, Penguin, 1961.
Rushdie, Salman. Imaginary Homelands: Essays in Criticism 1981-1991, Penguin,1992.
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, eds. Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg. Macmillan. 271–313. 1988.
Suggested Readings:
Deftereos, Christine. Ashis Nandy and the Cultural Politics of Selfhood. Sage Publications, 1999.
Innes, C.L. The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English. CUP, 2007.
Patke, Rajeev. Postcolonial Poetry in English. OUP, 2008.
Roberts, Neil, ed. A Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry. Blackwell, 2001.
e-resources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7DtnDt8its by Prof. Sayan C.,IIT ,Kanpur
Journals:
AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples