UNIT 1. Key concepts in postcolonial studies |
Aboriginal/indigenous peoples, agency, binarism, class, center/margin (periphery), colonialism, Commonwealth literature, decolonization, diaspora, ecofeminism, ethnicity, Eurocentrism, exile, feminism and postcolonialism, globalization, hybridity, imperialism, magic realism, neo-colonialism, neo-liberalism, new literatures, Orientalism, post(-)colonialism, postcolonial reading, race, resistance, rhizome, subaltern, slavery, transnational literatures, etc. |
UNIT 2. Decolonial scenarios |
2.1. Gloria Anzaldúa (Mexico & US): Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (excerpts)
2.2. M. NourbeSe Philip (Trinidad and Tobago & Canada): She Tries Her Tongue: Her Silence Softly Breaks (selected poems) |
UNIT 4. Beyond Orientalism |
4.1. Joumana Haddad (Lebanon): I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman (excerpts)
4.2. Leila Aboulela (Egypt & Sudan): “The Museum” |
UNIT 6. Feminist rewriting |
6.1. Amalia Ortiz (Mexico & US): The Canción Cannibal Cabaret (selected poems)
6.2. Suniti Namjoshi (India & UK): The Fabulous Feminist (excerpts) |