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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : English

106-110 World Literatures in English

Availability:

Not offered in 1997.

Credit Points:

12.5 1st year

Coordinator:

Anne Maxwell

Contact:

One 1-hour lecture and one 1.5-hour tutorial per week.

Content:

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.

Assessment:

Written work of not more than 4000 words.

Prescribed Texts:

Course reader available from the Department.

  • M Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
  • C Churchill, Cloud Nine
  • A Duff, Once Were Warriors
  • B Emecheta, The Joys of Motherhood
  • A Fugard, My Children! My Africa!
  • B Head, Maru
  • M H Kingston, The Woman Warrior
  • T Morrison, Song of Solomon
  • Mudrooroo Narogin, Dr Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World
  • V S Naipaul, A Flag on the Island
  • R K Narayan, The English Teacher
  • N Ndebele, Fools and Other Stories
  • J Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
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