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Week
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Topics
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1.
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1. Introduction: What is postcolonialism?
2. Commonwealth Literature
3. Colonial Discourse Analysis: Michel Foucault
4. Colonial Discourse Analysis: Edward Said
5. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
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2.
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1. Colonialism: The African Perspective
2. Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (I)
3. Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (II)
4. Decolonisation and the Discourse of Nationalism: The
Context of India
5. Sonnets of Henry Derozio
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3.
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1. Raja Rao’s Kanthapura (I)
2. Raja Rao’s Kanthapura (II)
3. Critics of Nationalism: Rabindranath Tagore and
Frantz Fanon
4. Homi Bhabha and the concept of cultural hybridity
5. Caribbean Poetry: Derek Walcott
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4.
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1. Diasporic literature: Selections from Jhumpa
Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies
2. Gayatri Spivak: Answering the question “Can the
Subaltern Speak?”
3. Mahasweta Devi Pterodactyl I
4. Mahasweta Devi Pterodactyl II
5. Conclusion: Postcolonial Futures
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