106-241/341 Postcolonial Writing

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Students study the literary, theoretical and filmic texts of contemporary writers belonging to formerly colonised societies and the postcolonial diaspora, examining such concepts as irony, allegory and magic realism and the uses that postcolonial writers have made of concepts like authenticity, identity, historical revisionism, mimicry and hybridity. They also relate postcolonial texts to formations of colonialism, nationalism, liberalism, neo-colonialism and globalisation. Students completing this subject should be able to show a knowledge of the contemporary debates surrounding the term 'post-colonialism' in literature.

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• A Duff, Once Were Warriors, Tandem.
• B Emecheta, The Joys of Motherhood
• F Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, Penguin.
• G Marquez, Innocent Erendira, Picador.
• B Mukerjee, Jasmine, Penguin.
• Mudrooroo Narogin, Master of the Ghost Dreaming, Imprint.
• Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Matigari, Heinemann.
• B Okri, Stars of the New Curfew
• G Spivak, The Spivak Reader
• B Yahp, The Crocodile Fury, Imprint.
• Film: H Kureishi, Sammie and Rosie Get Laid