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The course will focus on a range of Anglophone literatures, recently referred to as postcolonial literatures (New Zealand, Indian, Nigerian, South African, Anglophone 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.
Last update: Topolovská Tereza, PhDr., Ph.D. (10.09.2021)
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· to introduce students to the major issues of a wide range of postcolonial literatures · to enable students to identify dominant and distinct themes in individual literatures · to enable students to relate the selected texts to their (i.e., the countries’) cultural backgrounds · to introduce students to the notion of intercultural communicative competency and its implications as far as postcolonial texts and their employment in the classroom is concerned Last update: Topolovská Tereza, PhDr., Ph.D. (10.09.2021)
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TBD Last update: Topolovská Tereza, PhDr., Ph.D. (10.09.2021)
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1) Preparation for and participation in weekly seminars (max. 2 absences) 2) Successful completion of an oral exam, 3 sittings altogether 1st question (literary-historical): major themes, representatives and distinctive features of a selected literature 2nd question (didactic): presentation of a poem, a short story or a novel from the point of view of a postcolonial studies, literary history and EFL - preparation of a 45-minute-long lesson plan based on a text of postcolonial literature - the student will prepare a portfolio with lesson plans for all the literatures presented in the course. 3) Language skills are part of the overall assessment. Last update: Topolovská Tereza, PhDr., Ph.D. (10.09.2021)
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The novels to be discussed:
Short stories + excerpts: · Catherine Mansfield: "The Wind Blows"(New Zealand Literature) · Witi Ihimaera: "The Whale"(New Zealand Literature) · Roma Potiki: "Stolen Dreams" – extract (New Zealand Literature) · Anita Desai: "Studies in the Park"(Indian Literature in English) · Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: "Clothes" (Indian Literature in English) · Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things – extract (Indian Literature in English) - optional · Hari Kunzru : The Impressionist – extract (Indian Literature in English) - optional · Bruce Chatwin: The Songlines – extract (Australian literature) · Banjo Paterson: "The Man from Snowy River" (Australian literature) · Henry Lawson: "The Drover's wife" (Australian literature) · Samuel Dickinson Selvon: "The Cricket Match" (Anglophone Caribbean literature) · V.S. Naipaul: "The Night Watchman's Occurrence Book"(Anglophone Caribbean literature) · Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: "A Private Experience" (Nigerian literature) · Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: "The Headstrong Historian" (Nigerian literature) - optional · Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Half of a Yellow Sun – excerpt (Nigerian literature) - optional · Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Americanah – excerpt (Nigerian literature) - optional · Jekwu Anyaegbuna: "The Swimming Pool" (Nigerian literature) - optional · Hilda Bernstein: "Room 226" (South African literature in English) · Nadine Gordimer: “The Ultimate Safari” · Nadine Gordimer: “Once upon a Time” · Nadine Gordimer: “Comrades” Poems: Roma Potiki: "Stolen Dreams", “My Heart Goes Swimming” – extract (New Zealand Literature), Derek Walcott: “Ma Kilman” – excerpt (Anglophone Caribbean literature) Selective secondary sources for students who will write their diploma theses on postcolonial literature topics: Ashcroft, B. ed. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice on Post- Colonial Literature (New Accents). London: Routledge, 1994, 2002. Bhabha. H.K. The Location of Culture. London: Routledge, 1994, 1997. Cunningham, V. Reading After Theory. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002. Feder, L. Naipaul’s Truth: The Making of a Writer. New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2001. Khai, T. Babu Fictions: Alienation in Contemporary Indian English Novels. Oxford University Press, 2001. Kušnír, J. Australian Literature in Contexts. Prešov: Prešovská univerzita, 2003. McLeod, J. Beginning Postcolonialism. Manchester University Press, 2000. Said, E. Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient. London: Penguin, 1978, 1995. Said, E. Culture and Imperialism. London: Vintage, 1993, 1994. Young, R.J.C. Postcolonialism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Last update: Topolovská Tereza, PhDr., Ph.D. (10.09.2021)
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1) Preparation for and participation in weekly seminars (max. 2 absences) 2) Successful completion of an oral exam, 3 sittings altogether 1st question (literary-historical): major themes, representatives and distinctive features of a selected literature 2nd question (didactic): presentation of a poem, a short story or a novel from the point of view of a postcolonial studies, literary history and EFL - preparation of a 45-minute-long lesson plan based on a text of postcolonial literature - the student will prepare a portfolio with lesson plans for all the literatures presented in the course. 3) Language skills are part of the overall assessment. Last update: Topolovská Tereza, PhDr., Ph.D. (10.09.2021)
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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 Last update: Topolovská Tereza, PhDr., Ph.D. (10.09.2021)
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