Post-Colonial Literature - II

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

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

 
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. 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.

 

Journals:  

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

 

E-resources:

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

 
Academic Year: