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Course, academic year 2011/2012
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Postcolonial literature (selected chapters) - ON2301004
Title: Postkoloniální literatura
Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2011 to 2011
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 2
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / 54 (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Anna Grmelová, CSc.
Teacher(s): doc. PhDr. Anna Grmelová, CSc.
Pre-requisite : ON2301003
Is pre-requisite for: OSOZ3AA, OSOZ3A
Annotation -
I. Content of the course: The seminars will focus on new Anglophone literatures, which have been recently referred to as postcolonial literatures. The theoretical assumptions of postcolonial criticism (Edward Said, B. Ashcroft, Homi Bhabha) and a great amount of postcolonial literature are informed by postmodern and poststructuralist strategies, namely Jacques Derrida’s understanding of western metaphysics as "white mythology" and Michael Foucault’s theory of discourse and his rehabilitation of the Other as a lost dimension of Eurocentric culture. Students will be familiarised with the postcolonial discourse by means of brief extracts but the major focus of the seminars will be an interpretation of primary sources selected from a wide geographical spectrum of contemporary Anglophone literatures. II. Objectives of the course: • to introduce students to the major issues of a wide range of new 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
Last update: Topolovská Tereza, PhDr., Ph.D. (21.02.2017)
Literature - Czech

V. Texts:

The novels to be discussed:

·         Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart (Nigerian literature)

·         David Malouf: Remembering Babylon (Australian literature)

·         J.M. Coetzee: Disgrace (South African literature in English)

·         Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea (Anglophone Caribbean literature)

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: "The Headstrong Historian" (Nigerian literature)

·         Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: "A Private Experience" (Nigerian literature)

·         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)

·         Hilda Bernstein: "Room 226" (South African literature in English)

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. (21.02.2017)
Syllabus

 Postcolonial Literature – Introduction , Major issues of postcolonial theory and the role of English

 

 New Zealand Literature (Catherine Mansfield: "The Wind Blows", Witi Ihimaera: " The Whale", Roma Potiki: "Stolen Dreams" – extract)

 

Indian Literature in English (Anita Desai: "Studies in the Park", Chitra  Banerjee Divakaruni: "Clothes")

 

Teaching Practice – reading assignment, no classes

 

 Nigerian Literature (Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart)

           

Nigerian Literature (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: "The Headstrong Historian", "A Private Experience", Jekwu Anyaegbuna: "The Swimming Pool")

 

South African Literature in English (J.M. Coetzee: Disgrace; Hilda Bernstein: "Room 226")

 

Australian Literature (David Malouf: Remembering Babylon, Bruce Chatwin: The Songlines ex., Banjo Paterson: "The man from Snowy River", Henry Lawson: "The Drover's wife" )

 

Anglophone Caribbean Literature (Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea, Samuel Dickinson Selvon: "The Cricket Match" , V.S. Naipaul: "The Night Watchman's Occurrence Book")

Last update: Topolovská Tereza, PhDr., Ph.D. (05.05.2019)
 
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