Post-Colonial Literature – II

Paper Code: 
ENG 423-B
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

The course will enable the students to:

  • Critically analyse the highly contested field of postcolonial literature
  • Navigate the theoretical terms and concepts that characterize postcolonial studies
  • Identify the themes of colonialism, liberation, independence, tradition, modernity, individualism, community, socialism, etc., in postcolonial literature

 

 

Course Outcomes -

The students will :

  • Identify the diverse forms of colonial and postcolonial writings
  • knowledge of the historical context of literary production and reception
  • Investigate the application of literary theory to postcolonial literature
  • Identify the key concepts of race and nationalism in literary contexts

 

14.00
Unit I: 
Unit I

Frantz Fanon

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

 

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Can the Subaltern Speak?

 

14.00
Unit II: 
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: 
Unit III

Meena Alexander

Blood Line

Everything Strikes Loose

South of the Nilgiris 

 

R. Parthasarathy

From Exile

From Homecoming 

10.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV

Arun Kolatkar

the Boatride

The Turnaround

 

Nissim Ezekiel

from Ruminations

Goodbye Party …

Poem of the Separation

 

11.00
Unit V: 
Unit V

Michael Ondaatje

The English Patient

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings:

Deftereos, Christine. AshisNandy 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: 
2021-2022