16.7 2nd and 3rd year Anne Maxwell. First semester One 1.5-hour lecture and one 1.5-hour tutorial per week. Students who complete this subject successfully will:

• demonstrate an understanding of the complexity and range of postcolonial textual production;
• show an understanding of some of the major theoretical debates surrounding postcolonial literature and criticism;
• bring an interdisciplinary approach to the study of postcolonial texts;
• demonstrate an understanding of the links between nationalism and postcolonial literature and theory;
• show an understanding of the phenomenon of postcolonial writing as a distinct but heterogeneous category of cultural production with its own history and tradition, distinct from but related to other contemporary discourses such as modernism, postmodernism, marxism and feminism.

This subject offers a study of recent fiction, theory and film by postcolonial writers living in both the postcolonial and metropolitan worlds. It aims to introduce students to a range of literary practices touching on issues such as nationalism, transnationalism, multiculturalism, biculturalism, diasporan experience, ethnicity, race and gender. Written work of not more than 5,000 words. Chow R Writing Diaspora Indiana Duff A Once Were Warriors. Fanon F Wretched of the Earth Penguin Kureishi H The Buddha of Suburbia Penguin Mudrooroo The Master of the Ghost Dreaming Imprint Mukherjee B Jasmine Penguin Naipaul V S The Enigma of Arrival Penguin Spivak G C In Other Worlds Methuen Turner Hospital J The Ivory Swing QUP Ngugi Wa Thi'ongo Matagari Heinemann Yahp B The Crocodile Fury A & R. Films: Kureishi H Sammie and Rosie Get Laid. Murphy G Utu. Course reader available from the department 16.7 Anne Maxwell. First semester. One 1.5-hour lecture and one 1.5-hour tutorial each week Students who complete this subject successfully will:

• demonstrate an understanding of the complexity and range of postcolonial textual production;
• show an understanding of some of the major theoretical debates surrounding postcolonial literature and criticism;
• bring an interdisciplinary approach to the study of postcolonial texts;
• demonstrate an understanding of the links between nationalism and postcolonial literature and theory; and
• show an understanding of the phenomenon of postcolonial writing as a distinct but heterogeneous category of cultural production with its own history and tradition, distinct from but related to other contemporary discourses such as modernism, postmodernism, marxism and feminism.

This subject offers a study of recent fiction, theory and film by postcolonial writers living in both the postcolonial and metropolitan worlds. It aims to introduce students to a range of literary practices touching on issues such as nationalism, transnationalism, multiculturalism, biculturalism, diasporan experience, ethnicity, race and gender. Written work of not more than 5,000 words. Chow R Writing Diaspora Indiana Duff A Once Were Warriors. Fanon F Wretched of the Earth Penguin Kureishi H The Buddha of Suburbia Penguin Mudrooroo The Master of the Ghost Dreaming Imprint Mukherjee B Jasmine Penguin Naipaul V S The Enigma of Arrival Penguin Spivak G C In Other Worlds Methuen Turner Hospital J The Ivory Swing QUP Ngugi Wa Thi'ongo Matagari Heinemann Yahp B The Crocodile Fury A & R. Films: Kureishi H Sammie and Rosie Get Laid Murphy G Utu Course reader available from the department