Post-Colonial Literature – I

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

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

The students will:

CO 76. Identify the historical discourses of race and ethnicity in a variety of colonial and postcolonial contexts

CO 77. Evaluate the legacies of colonialism, by interrogating the presence of colonial history and structures of domination

CO 78. Critically appreciate diverse and relevant sources of study, to understand the politics of race and nationalism

CO 79. Evaluate the questions of history, modernity, identity and language in postcolonial literature

CO 80. Develop skills to compare and contrast themes, expressions, and strategies of political and cultural representation of resistance with reference to socio-historical contexts

 

 

Approach in teaching:

Discussion, Demonstration via Presentation

Learning activities for the students:

Report-writing, Seminar-presentation

Report-writing, Presentation, Viva-Voce

 

12.00

Mulk Raj Anand

Untouchable

 

 

 

12.00

Salman Rushdie

Shalimar the Clown

 

 

 

12.00

Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Apart

 

 

 

12.00

Amitav Ghosh

The Hungry Tide

 

 

 

12.00
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.

 

e-resources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHNF4ThCmwY (Anand)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKgDzfTBsug (Rushdie)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHF_w0gkyiI (Achebe)

 

Journals:

Ariel: A Review of International English Literature

 

Academic Year: