Post-Colonial Literature - II

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

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

The students will:

CO 126.  Identify the diverse forms of colonial and postcolonial writings

CO 127. knowledge of the historical context of literary production and reception

CO 128. Investigate the application of literary theory to postcolonial literature

CO 129. Identify the key concepts of race and nationalism in literary contexts

CO 130. Analyse and evaluate the postcolonial aspects of the literary works

Approach in teaching:

Discussion, Demonstration via Presentation

Learning activities for the students:

Report-writing, Seminar-presentation

Report-writing, Presentation, Viva-Voce

 

14.00

Frantz Fanon

“On National Culture”

(from The Wretched of the Earth)

 

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Can the Subaltern Speak?

(from Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture)

 

 

 

14.00

Homi K. Bhabha

“The Locations of Culture: The Commitment to Theory”

(from The Location of Culture)

 

Salman Rushdie

“Imaginary Homelands”

(from Imaginary Homelands: Essays in Criticism)

 

11.00

Meena Alexander

Blood Line

Everything Strikes Loose

South of the Nilgiris

 

 

R. Parthasarathy

From Exile

From Homecoming

 

 

 

10.00

Arun Kolatkar

the Boatride

The Turnaround

 

Nissim Ezekiel

from Ruminations

Goodbye Party …

Poem of the Separation

 

 

 

11.00

Michael Ondaatje

The English Patient

 

 

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Source Books:

Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture, Routledge, 1994.

Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth, Penguin, 1961.

Rushdie, Salman. Imaginary Homelands: Essays in Criticism 1981-1991, Penguin,1992.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, eds. Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg. Macmillan. 271–313. 1988.

 

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.

 

e-resources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7DtnDt8its by Prof. Sayan C.,IIT ,Kanpur

 

Journals:

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

 

 

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