Subject Post Colonial Literature

Course Title: Post-Colonial Literature
Course Code: ENG-604
Credit Hours: 3(3-0)

Course Contents

Poetry:

• Derek Walcott: A Far Cry from Africa (1962)
• Louise Bennett: Selected Poems (1983)
• Wole Soyinka: Mandela’s Earth and Other Poems (1988)
• A.K. Ramanujan: Collected Poems (2011)

Note: Four to five poems from each collection may be selected by the instructor.

Drama:

• Wole Soyinka: A Dance of the Forests (1963)
• Derek Walcott: Dream on Monkey Mountain (1970)
• Jack Davis: Honey Spot (1985)

Fiction:

• Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart (1958), a novel
• Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), a novel
• Rohinton Mistry: Tales From Firozsha Baag (1987), a collection of short stories
• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: Devil on the Cross (1982), a novel

Note: Two short stories from Mistry’s collection may be selected by the instructor.

Recommended Books:

• Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G., & Tiffin, H. (1989). The Empire Writes Back. London: Routledge.
• Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G., & Tiffin, H. (1995). The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. London: Routledge.
• Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G., & Tiffin, H. (1998). Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts. London, New York: Routledge.
• Bhabha, H. K. (1994). The Location of Culture. London: Routledge.
• Fanon, F. (1963). The Wretched of the Earth (C. Farrington, Trans.). New York: Grove Weidenfeld.
• Innes, C. L. (2007). The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literature in English. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Loomba, A. (1998). Colonialism/Postcolonialism. London: Routledge.
• Said, E. W. (1978). Orientalism. London: Routledge.
• Said, E. W. (1994). Culture and Imperialism. London: Vintage Books.
• Spivak, G. (1988). “Can the Subaltern Speak?” In Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture (C. Nelson & L. Grossberg, Eds.). Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.