12.5 1st year Anne Maxwell, Anne Neumann. Second semester One 1-hour lecture and one 1.5-hour tutorial per week. Students who complete this subject successfully:

• will have learnt about the ways in which colonised peoples in the English-speaking world have adopted and used the English language;
• will understand how race, gender and class differences are changing what counts as a literary classic;
• will have acquired relevant research skills including use of the library, referencing, and presentation of written work;
• will be able to apply flexible reading strategies and writing practices to the material studied;
• will have a background of relevant knowledge and methodologies, both critical and theoretical, on which to base further studies in English.

An introduction to the 'new' English literatures, emphasising the world-wide movement of English and literature in English through the historical processes of colonisation, diaspora, post-colonialism, and the reverse migration of formerly colonised peoples back to the centres of empire. Written work of not more than 4,000 words. Atwood M The Handmaid's Tale. Churchill C Cloud Nine. Duff A Once Were Warriors. Emecheta B The Joys of Motherhood. Fugard A My Children! My Africa! Head B Maru. Kingston M H The Woman Warrior. Morrison T Song of Solomon. Mudrooroo Narogin Dr Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World. Naipaul V S A Flag on the Island. Narayan R K The English Teacher. Ndebele N Fools and Other Stories. Rhys J Wide Sargasso Sea. Course reader available from the Department 12.5 Anne Maxwell, Anne Neumann. Second semester. One 1-hour lecture and one 1.5-hour tutorial each week Students who complete this subject successfully:

• will have learnt about the ways in which colonised peoples in the English-speaking world have adopted and used the English language;
• will understand how race, gender and class differences are changing what counts as a literary classic;
• will have acquired relevant research skills including use of the library, referencing, and presentation of written work;
• will be able to apply flexible reading strategies and writing practices to the material studied; and
• will have a background of relevant knowledge and methodologies, both critical and theoretical, on which to base further studies in English.

An introduction to the "new" English literatures, emphasising the world-wide movement of English and literature in English through the historical processes of colonisation, diaspora, post-colonialism, and the reverse migration of formerly colonised peoples back to the centres of empire. Written work of not more than 4,000 words. Atwood M The Handmaid's Tale. Churchill C Cloud Nine. Duff A Once Were Warriors. Emecheta B The Joys of Motherhood. Fugard A My Children! My Africa! Head B Maru Kingston M H The Woman Warrior. Morrison T Song of Solomon Mudrooroo Narogin Dr Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World. Naipaul V S A Flag on the Island. Narayan R K The English Teacher. Ndebele N Fools and Other Stories. Rhys J Wide Sargasso Sea. Course reader available from the Department