Post-Colonial Literature – II

Paper Code: 
ENG 423-B
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

  • The course will enable the students to:

    • Be exposed to a critical introduction to the highly contested field of postcolonial literature
    • Navigate the complex maze of theoretical terms and concepts that characterize postcolonial studies and the condition of postcoloniality
    • Have a literary engagement with a nation’s consciousness through the themes of colonialism, liberation, independence, tradition, modernity, individualism, community, socialism, etc.

Course Learning Outcomes

The students will be able to:

  • Gain an understanding of the diverse forms of colonial and postcolonial nationalism, as seen in literature
  • Acquire knowledge of the historical context of literary production and reception
  •  Get an insight into the application of literary theory to postcolonial literature
14.00
Unit I: 

Frantz Fanon

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

 

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Can the Subaltern Speak?

 

14.00
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: 
2020-2021