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
Mulk Raj Anand
Untouchable
Salman Rushdie
Shalimar the Clown
Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart
Amitav Ghosh
The Hungry Tide
Wole Soyinka
Death and the King’s Horseman
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