Post-Colonial Literature – II

Paper Code: 
ENG 423 – B
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 
  • To expose the students with the successive literary responses to the condition of postcoloniality by way of examining the writers’ handling of their material and a nation’s consciousness
14.00
Unit I: 

Frantz Fanon

“On National Culture” (from The Wretched of the Earth)

 

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Can the Subaltern Speak?

Unit II: 

Homi K. Bhabha

“Locations of Culture: The Commitment to Theory” (from The Location of Culture)

 

Salman Rushdie

“Imaginary Homelands” (from Imaginary Homelands: Essays in  Criticism)

11.00
Unit III: 

Meena Alexander

Blood Line

Everything Strikes Loose

South of the Nilgiris 

 

R. Parthasarathy

From Exile

From Homecoming

10.00
Unit IV: 

Arun Kolatkar

the Boatride

The Turnaround

 

Nissim Ezekiel

from Ruminations

Goodbye Party …

Poem of the Separation

11.00
Unit V: 

Michael Ondaatje

The English Patient

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Deftereos, Christine. Ashis Nandy and the Cultural Politics of Selfhood. Sage Publications, 1999.
  • Innes, C.L. The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English. CUP, 2007.
  • Patke, Rajeev. Postcolonial Poetry in English. OUP, 2008.
  • Roberts, Neil, ed. A Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry. Blackwell, 2001.
Academic Year: 
2016-2017