Syllabus
Introduction to the course
Postcolonial Literature –Definition, major issues of postcolonial theory, the role of English, postcolonial literatures and ICC
New Zealand Literature
Indian Literature in English
Teaching Practice – reading assignment, no classes
Nigerian Literature
South African Literature in English
Australian Literature
Anglophone Caribbean Literature
Annotation
The course will focus on a range of Anglophone literatures, recently referred to as postcolonial literatures (New Zealand, Indian, Nigerian, South African, Caribbean, and Australian literatures). Both the lectures and seminars familiarise the students with key literary texts of these literatures as well as theoretical assumptions of postcolonial criticism informed by postmodern and poststructuralist strategies.
The major focus of the seminars will be an interpretation of primary sources selected from a wide geographical spectrum of contemporary Anglophone literatures from the point of view of postcolonial thought as well as TEFL.