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.
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)
Homi K. Bhabha
“Introduction: Locations of Culture” (from The Location of Culture)
Salman Rushdie
“Imaginary Homelands” (from Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991)
Meena Alexander
Blood Line
Everything Strikes Loose
South of the Nilgiris
R. Parthasarathy
From Exile
From Homecoming
Arun Kolatkar
the Boatride
The Turnaround
Nissim Ezekiel
from Ruminations
Goodbye Party …
Poem of the Separation
Michael Ondaatje
The English Patient
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
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.