Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500245 English Studies | OT | 3 | 0 |
2500245 English Studies | OT | 4 | 0 |
Students are advised to have passed all first and second year subjects in the English Studies degree before taking this subject.
The required level of English is C2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment, which means that the student is able to understand a wide range of long, complex texts and can recognize implicit meanings. S/he can express him or herself fluently and spontaneously without it being obvious that s/he is searching for the correct word or expression. The student should be able to use the language efficiently and flexibly for social, academic and professional purposes. S/he should be able to produce clear, well structured and detailed texts on complex topics and demonstrate his or her control over organizing structures and connectors.
1. General introduction to the theory and practice of Postcolonial Studies in the English-speaking world (India, ex Pacifiic Island colonies, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, the West Indies and Canada)
2. Basic study of class, gender, race, ethnicity and nationality in English-speaking sociocultural environments.
3. Critical reading and analysis of a selection of texts, both print and audiovisual, as well as cultural manifestations of contemporary societies in the English-speaking world from a postcolonial perspective
4. Study of the most recent relevant transformations in culture and society in the English-speaking world with special attention given to those introduced by feminism, the breakdown of colonial empires and new understandings of the concept of culture.
Syllabus
For the academic year 2019-2020 the set books are:
Chimamanda Nogozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun , Fourth Estate, 2006 (Nigeria)
Manju Kapur, Difficult Daughters, Faber & Faber, 1998 (India)
Trevor Noah, Born a Crime, John Murray, 2016 (South Africa)
Selection of extracts (creative writing and theory) - available on moodle
The teaching methodology will be based on:
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Group seminars | 7.5 | 0.3 | 2, 23, 13, 8, 18, 17, 9 |
Text reading and in-class debates | 7.5 | 0.3 | 23, 11, 8, 18, 17, 9 |
Theory classes | 30 | 1.2 | 10, 11, 15, 18 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Oral presentation | 12 | 0.48 | 4, 8, 18, 17, 20 |
Tutorials | 9 | 0.36 | 5, 6, 4, 1, 7, 23, 20 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Analysis | 10 | 0.4 | 4, 2, 10, 11, 13, 15, 8, 18, 19, 24 |
Bibliography practice | 8 | 0.32 | 5, 4, 7, 14, 20 |
Individual reading | 45 | 1.8 | 4, 1, 7, 22, 11, 15, 24 |
Individual study | 12 | 0.48 | 7, 22, 11, 20, 16, 24 |
Assessment
NOTE CAREFULLY:
Reassessment
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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1st exam | 30% | 1.5 | 0.06 | 2, 23, 10, 22, 12, 11, 15, 18, 17, 9, 16, 24 |
2nd exam | 35% | 1.5 | 0.06 | 5, 4, 1, 2, 3, 23, 22, 12, 11, 14, 15, 18, 17, 9, 21, 16, 24 |
Class attendance and participation | 15% | 5 | 0.2 | 1, 2, 23, 12, 11, 15, 18, 17, 9 |
Oral presentation | 20% | 1 | 0.04 | 5, 6, 2, 7, 23, 10, 12, 11, 13, 15, 8, 18, 17, 9, 19, 20, 24 |
Set Texts:
Chimamanda Nogozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun , Fourth Estate, 2006 (Nigeria)
Manju Kapur, Difficult Daughters, Faber & Faber, 1998 (India)
Trevor Noah, Born a Crime, John Murray, 2016 (South Africa)
Selection of extracts (creative writing and theory) - available on moodle
Bibliography:
Ahmad, Aijaz, In Theory. Classes, Nations, Literatures, London: Verso, 1992.
Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies, Routledge, 1998.
Bhabha, Homi K., The Location of Culture, Routledge, 1994.
Bharucha, Nilufer E. & Sarang, Vilas (eds), Indian-English Fiction. 1980-90: An Assessment, Delhi: B.R. Publishing Corporation, 1994.
Boehmer, Elleke, Colonial & Postcolonial Literature, Oxford University Press, 1995.
Boehmer, Elleke, Stories of Women. Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005.
Chapman, Michael & Margaret Lenta (eds), SA Lit. Beyond 2000, Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2011.
Chew, Shirley & David Richards, A Concise Companion to Postcolonial Literature, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Donaldson, Laura E. Decolonizing Fictions: Race, Gender and Empire-building. London and New York: Routledge, 1992.
Fanon, Frantz. Black Skins, White Masks. 1952. Trans. Contance Farrington. New York: Grove Press, 1998.
Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. 1961. Trans. Charles Larn Markmann. London: Penguin Books, 1990.
JanMohamed, Abdul. Manichean Aesthetics. Amherst, MA: University of Massachussets Press, 1983.
Mbembe, Achille. On the Postcolony. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2001.
McLeod, John, Beginning Postcolonialism, Manchester UniversityPress, 2000.
Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna (ed), An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English, Delhi: Permanent Black – Ravi Dayal Publishers, 2003.
Mishra, Vijay, The Literature of the Indian Diaspora. Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary, Routledge, 2007.
Mohanty, Chandra Talpade, Ann Russo and Lourdes Torres, eds. Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.
Naik, M.K. & Shyamala A. Narayan, Indian English Literature 1980-2000. A Critical Survey, Delhi: Pencraft Interantional, 2001.
Ngugi wa’ Thiongo, Decolonizing the Mind. The Politics of Language in African Literature. London: Heinemann, 1986.
Rushdie, Salman, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991, Granta, 1991.
Said, Edward, Orientalism, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991 (1978).
Said, Edward, Culture and Imperialism, New York: Vintage Books, 1994.
Saint, Tarun K., Witnessing Partition. Memory, History, Fiction, London: Routledge, 2010.
Spivak, Gayatri, The Post-Colonial Critic, ed. Sarah Harasym, London: Routledge, 1990.
Williams, Patrick & Laura Chrisman (eds), Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993.
Young, Robert, Colonial Desire. Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race, Routledge, 1995.
Websites:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie website: http://www.cerep.ulg.ac.be/adichie/index.html
Contemporary Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English: http://www.postcolonialweb.org/
Postcolonial Theories: http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/Literary_Criticism/postcolonism/postcolonial_link.htm#Introduction
South African History Online https://www.sahistory.org.za/
The Road to Partition http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/the-road-to-partition/