Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
Subjects |
Postcolonial Literature |
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Identifying Data | 2020/21 | |||||||||||||
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. Introduction: Colonial contexts. | 1.1. British imperialism: a socio-historical introduction. 1.2. Colonial discourse. Orientalism. Readings: Rudyard Kipling’s “White Man’s Burden” and Henry Lawson’s “The Drover’s Wife” |
2. Decolonization and Postcolonialism | 2.1. Decolonizing the mind. 2.2. Postcolonial literatures and criticism. Stereotypes and Manichean oppositions. Readings: Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “The Danger of a Single Story” |
3. Resisting Decolonization | 3.1. South Africa: From settler colony to the post-apartheid era. 3.2. Post-colonial (?) Australia: The Stolen Generation. Readings: Nadine Gordimer’s “Country Lovers” and excerpts from Sally Morgan’s My Place |
4. Postcolonial Agency | 4.1. Hybridity and Third Spaces 4.2. “Rites of Passage” and Liminality. 4.3. “Can the Subaltern Speak?” Reading: excerpt from David Malouf’s Remembering Babylon |
5. Diasporas, Migrations and Transnational Contexts | 5.1. Still, the slave trade triangle 5.2. Afropolitanism 5.3. Globalization, neocolonialism and cosmopolitanism Readings: Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon, excerpts from Jamal Mahjoub’s Travelling with Djinns, Jamaica Kincaid’s “A Small Place”, and Merlinda Bobis's “The Long Siesta as a Language Primer” |
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