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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
| Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
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| Literatura Poscolonial |
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| Identifying Data | 2015/16 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Literatura Poscolonial | Code | 613G03026 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Third | Obligatoria | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| 1. Postcolonial contexts and criticism (I). | 1.1.- Colonial and postcolonial anglophone countries I: a socio-historical introduction. 1.2.- Key concepts in postcolonial criticism and theory I. |
| 2. Postcolonial literatures in English I: Africa and Oceania. | 2.1.- Colonial origins and Postcolonial literatures: Nigeria (Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart) and South Africa (Gordimer, Coetzee, Mda, among others). 2.2.- Colonial origins and Postcolonial literatures: Australia (Lawson, Patterson, Malouf and Morgan). |
| 3. Postcolonial contexts and criticism (II). | 3.1.- Colonial and postcolonial anglophone countries II: a socio-historical introduction. 3.2.- Key concepts in postcolonial criticism and theory II. |
| 4. Postcolonial literatures in English II: America, Asia and the new diasporas. | 4.1.- Postcolonial literatures in America: Canada (Atwood, Munro, King, among others). 4.2.- Postcolonial literatures in Asia: the Indian subcontinent (Rushdie and Adiga, among others). 4.3.- Key concepts in Transnacional and Diaspora Studies: Globalization, Neocolonialism, Cosmopolitanism (texts by Bobis, Viramontes, Desai, Divakaruni). |
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