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Faculty of Philology
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Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios
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  Postcolonial Literature
   Contents
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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 3. Postcolonial agency 3.1. Jamaica Kincaid (Antigua and Barbuda & US): “Girl”

3.2. Patricia Grace (New Zealand): “Butterflies”

3.3. Warsan Shire (Somalia & UK): Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head (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 5. Subaltern memory 5.1. The Saharawi Friendship Generation (Western Sahara et al.): Treinta y Uno, Thirty One: A Bilingual Anthology (selected poems)

5.2. Merlinda Bobis (Philippines & Australia): “Fish-hair Woman”
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)
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