Post-Colonial Literature – I

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

•         To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative writers and their individual traits.

12.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

Raja Rao

Kanthapura

12.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

Salman Rushdie

Shalimar the Clown

12.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Apart

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

Amitav Ghosh

The Shadow Lines

12.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

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: 
2017-2018