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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 | 2022/23 | |||||||||||||
| 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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| 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 Marlene Nourbese Philip (selected poems). |
| 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 (excerpts), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “The Danger of a Single Story”, Merlinda Bobis ("Fish Hair Woman), and Amalia Ortiz (selections from The Canción Cannibal Cabaret). |
| 3. Decolonization and Resistance | 3.1. South Africa: From settler colony to the post-apartheid era. 3.2. Post-colonial(?) Regions. Readings: Nadine Gordimer’s “Country Lovers” and Treinta y Uno, Thirty One: A Bilingual Anthology of Saharawi Resistance Poetry (selection). |
| 4. Postcolonial Agency | 4.1. Hybridity and Third Spaces 4.2. “Rites of Passage” and Liminality. 4.3. “Can the Subaltern Speak?” Readings: Gabby Rivera (excerpt from Juliet Takes a Breath) and Joumana Haddad (excerpts from I Killed Scheherazade). |
| 5. Diasporas, Migrations and Transnational Contexts | 5.1. Still, the triangular slave trade 5.2. Afropolitanism 5.3. Globalization, neocolonialism and cosmopolitanism Readings: Jamaica Kincaid’s “A Small Place” and Suniti Namjoshi (excerpts from The Fabulous Feminist). Poetry selection (Warsan Shire, Rupi Kaur, Fariha Róisín, or Nayyirah Waheed). |
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