İDE321

School of Humanities \ English Language and Literature

3

6

Elective

English

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Undergraduate

This course will examine postcolonial literature on identity (race, gender, class, sexuality), representation and power. and how it critiques colonialism, imperialism and globalization. Students will also explore the complexity of hybrid identities, cultural hybridity, and how these how they have been shaped by histories of resistance. Ultimately, the course will focus on Europe colonialism as a way of capturing the experiences of those living both within and beyond colonialism. It is designed to express a postcolonial and decolonized perspective.

Ashcroft, The Postcolonial Studies Reader; Ahmad, In Theory; Boehmer, Colonial and Postcolonial
Literature; Edward Said's "Orientalism" and Imperialism and Culture; Amié Césaire's "Discourse on
Colonialism"; Gayarti Spivak's "Can the Subaltern Speak"; Deepika Bahri's "Once More with Feeling: What
is Postcolonialism?"; Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy; Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North; The
Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

This course aims to enable students to explore the social, cultural and political impact of colonialism and the struggle for independence and self-determination through close reading and analysis of a range of texts, including fiction, poetry, drama, non-fiction and cultural aesthetics.

1. Students develop critical reading and analytical thinking skills.
2. Students understand the historical and cultural contexts of postcolonial literature.

Week 1: What is Postcolonialism and Postcolonial Literature?
Week 2: What is Postcolonialism and Postcolonial Literature?
Week 3: Analyzing the postcolonial imagination
Week 4: Examining the postcolonial imaginary
Week 5: Reflecting on the "tools of the owner": Debates on the English Language; Caribbean Postcolonial Poetry
Week 6: Reflecting on the "tools of the owner": Debates on the English Language; Caribbean Postcolonial Poetry
Week 7: Feminist Readings; Reversing Trajectories; Contemporary Postcolonial Literature
Week 8: Feminist Readings; Reversing Trajectories; Contemporary Postcolonial Literature
Week 9: Neocolonialism and Short Stories
Week 10: Neocolonialism and Short Stories
Week 11: Decolonial Art(?): Performance, Poetry, Humor and Music
Week 12: Decolonial Art(?): Performance, Poetry, Humor and Music

• Midterm 30 %
• Final 40 %
• Final Assignment 30 %