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Postcolonial Literature (selected chapters)

Class at Faculty of Education |
OENAA1729Z

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.