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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
| Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
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| Postcolonial Literature |
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| Identifying Data | 2018/19 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Postcolonial Literature | Code | 613G03026 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Third | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| 1. Postcolonial contexts and criticism (I): Africa and its diaspora. | 1.1.- Colonial and postcolonial anglophone countries I: a socio-historical introduction. 1.2.- Key concepts in postcolonial criticism and theory I: national, cultural and linguistic identities; gender issues. |
| 2. Postcolonial literatures in English I: Africa and its diaspora. | 2.1.- Postcolonial literatures in Africa: Achebe, Nwapa, Darko, Adichie. 2.2.- Postcolonial literatures in the Caribbean (West Indies): Edwidge Danticat, Jean "Binta" Breeze, Louise Bennet, Jamaica Kincaid, Bob Marley. 2.3.- Postcolonial literatures in the African Diaspora (UK, Canada): Grace Nichols, Jackie Kay, Olive Senior, Linton Kwesi Johnson, James Berry. |
| 3. On recurrent themes and subthemes in postcolonial literatures. (I) | 3.1. Physical and psycological journeys. 3.2. Identity crisis (unbelonging/ Acculturation traumas. 3.3. Choosing to stay, to leave, to come back home. 3.4. Female versus Male versus LGBTi discourses. |
| 4. Postcolonial contexts and criticism (II). | 4.1.- Colonial and postcolonial anglophone countries II: a socio-historical introduction. 4.2.- Key concepts in postcolonial criticism and theory II. |
| 5. Postcolonial literatures in English II: Canada, Asia and the new diasporas. | 5.1.- Postcolonial literatures in America: Canada (Atwood, Munro, King). 5.2.- Postcolonial literatures in Asia: the Indian subcontinent (Rushdie, Divakaruni). 5.3.- Key concepts in Transnacional and Diaspora Studies: Globalization, Neocolonialism, Cosmopolitanism (texts by Bobis, Desai, Divakaruni). |
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