Post-Colonial Literature – I

Paper Code: 
ENG 323 – B
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

  • The course will enable the students to:

    • Identify key questions and literary forms in postcolonial literature and situate the selected texts in the larger cultural context
    • Understand the discourse of race and ethnicity as discursive constructions that intersect with class and gender as paradigms of identity
    • Develop coherent knowledge of the key historical, cultural and theoretical developments in postcolonial literature
    • Understand the politics of imperialism and trace those writings as a trajectory for reading the subaltern’s subordination to the assertion of agency
12.00
Unit I: 

Raja Rao

Kanthapura

12.00
Unit II: 

Salman Rushdie

Shalimar the Clown

12.00
Unit III: 

Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Apart

12.00
Unit IV: 

Amitav Ghosh

The Shadow Lines

12.00
Unit V: 

Wole Soyinka Death and the King’s Horsemen

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Fanon, Frantz.The Wretched of the Earth. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 2001. Print.    
  • Hutchings, Francis. The Illusion of Permance: British Imperialism in India. Princeton University,1967.Print.
  •  Innes,C.L., and L.B.eds. Reinmann. Critical Perspectives on Chinua Achebe. London: Three Continents Press,1979. Print.
  •  Said, Edward W. Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 2001. Print.
Academic Year: 
2019-2020