Post-Colonial Literature - II

Paper Code: 
24ENG423(B)
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

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 and identify the themes of colonialism, liberation, independence, tradition, modernity, individualism, community, socialism, etc., in postcolonial literature.

 

14.00
Unit I: 

Frantz Fanon

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

 

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

“Can the Subaltern Speak?” (from Can the Subaltern Speak? Reflections on the History of an Idea)

 

14.00
Unit II: 

Homi K. Bhabha

“Introduction: Locations of Culture” (from The Location of Culture)

 

Salman Rushdie

“Imaginary Homelands” (from Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991)

 

11.00
Unit III: 

Meena Alexander

Blood Line

Everything Strikes Loose

South of the Nilgiris

 

R. Parthasarathy

From Exile

From Homecoming

 

11.00
Unit IV: 

Arun Kolatkar

the Boatride

The Turnaround

 

Nissim Ezekiel

from Ruminations

Goodbye Party …

Poem of the Separation

 

10.00
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: 
2024-2025
Course Outcomes: 

The students will:

CO121.  Identify the diverse forms of colonial and postcolonial writings

CO122. Explore the historical context of literary production and reception

CO123. Investigate the application of literary theory to postcolonial literature

CO124. Examine the key concepts of race and nationalism in literary contexts

CO125. Analyse the literary works from a postcolonial perspective
 

CO126.  Contribute effectively to course-specific interaction.