Post-Colonial Literature – I

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

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

 
12.00
Unit I: 

Mulk Raj Anand

Untouchable 

 
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 Hungry Tide

 

12.00
Unit V: 

Wole Soyinka

Death and the King’s Horseman 

 
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

Commonwealth: Essays and Studies

 

 

Academic Year: