Postcolonial Literature (Theory)

Paper Code: 
25CENG512
Credits: 
6
Periods/week: 
6
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The Course will enable the students to identify key questions and literary forms in postcolonial literature by acquiring an insight into the key historical, cultural and theoretical developments in postcolonial literature.

 
Course Outcomes: 

The students will:

CO55. Examine the diverse forms of colonial and postcolonial writings

CO56. Develop knowledge of the historical context of literary production and reception

CO57. Estimate the application of literary theory to postcolonial literature

CO58. Theorize the key concepts of race and nationalism in literary contexts

CO59. Analyse and evaluate the postcolonial aspects of the literary works

CO60.Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction.

16.00
Unit I: 

Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Apart

 
16.00
Unit II: 

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

 
17.00
Unit III: 

Bessie Head

The Collector of Treasures

 

Adrienne Kennedy

Funnyhouse of A Negro

 
17.00
Unit IV: 

Ama Ata Aidoo 

The Girl who can 

No Sweetness Here

 

Grace Ogot

The Green Leaves 

The Other Woman

 
24.00
Unit V: 

Pablo Neruda 

Tonight I can Write 

The Way Spain Was

 

Derek Walcott

A Far Cry from Africa 

Names

 

David Malouf 

Revolving Days 

Wild Lemons

 

Mamang Dai

Small Towns and the River 

The Voice of the Mountain

 
SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Reference Books:

Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Trans. by Charles Lam, Pluto Press, 2008. 

Thiong’o, Ngugi wa. “The Language of African Literature’’. Decolonising the Mind. James Curry, 1986.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. “Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech’’. 

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: New Readings, ed. Bernard McGuirk and Richard Cardwell, Cambridge UP, 1987.

 

E-Resources including links:

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/234673991.pdf https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2016/02/a-profile-of-ama-a...

 

Reference Journals:

CORE

Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies

 
Academic Year: 
2025-2026