Post-Colonial Literature – I

Paper Code: 
ENG 323-B
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

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

 

Course  Outcomes-

The students will:

  • Identify the historical discourses of race and ethnicity in a variety of colonial and postcolonial contexts
  • Evaluate the legacies of colonialism, by interrogating the presence of colonial history and structures of domination
  • Critically appreciate diverse and relevant sources of study, to understand the politics of race and nationalism
  • Evaluate the questions of history, modernity, identity and language in postcolonial literature

 

12.00
Unit I: 
Unit I

Mulk Raj Anand

Untouchable

 

12.00
Unit II: 
Unit II

Salman Rushdie

Shalimar the Clown

 

12.00
Unit III: 
Unit III

Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Apart

 

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV

Amitav Ghosh

The Hungry Tide

 

12.00
Unit V: 
Unit V

Wole Soyinka

Death and the King’s Horseman

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings

Fanon, Frantz.The Wretched of the Earth. Penguin Books, 2001.

Hutchings, Francis. The Illusion of Permanence: British Imperialism in India. Princeton University,1967.

 Innes,C.L., and L.B.eds. Reinmann. Critical Perspectives on Chinua Achebe. Three Continents Press,1979.

 Said, Edward W. Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient. Penguin Books, 2001. 

Academic Year: 
2021-2022