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Theory Unit (7 items)For this unit, you should purchase a copy of Patrick Williams & Laura Chrisman, ColonialDiscourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf,1993).
Week 11 (1 items)
Colonial Discourse and Post-colonial Theory: Reader - Chrisman, Laura, Williams, Patrick,1993
Book | Core Text | Read the following chapters: Edward Said, ‘From Orientalism’; DennisPorter, ‘Orientalism and its Problems’, both in Patrick Williams & Laura Chrisman, ColonialDiscourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf,1993).
Week 12 (1 items)
Colonial Discourse and Post-colonial Theory: Reader - Chrisman, Laura, Williams, Patrick,1993
Book | Core Text | Read the following chapters: Chinua Achebe, ‘The African Writer andthe English Language’; Aimé Césaire, ‘From Discourse on Colonialism’, both in PatrickWilliams & Laura Chrisman, Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader (HemelHempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993).
Week 13 (1 items)
Colonial Discourse and Post-colonial Theory: Reader - Chrisman, Laura, Williams, Patrick,1993
Book | Core Text | Read these two chapters: Frantz Fanon, ‘On National Culture’,Amilcar Cabral, ‘National Liberation and Culture’, both in Patrick Williams & LauraChrisman, Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader (Hemel Hempstead:Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993).
Week 14 (1 items)
Colonial Discourse and Post-colonial Theory: Reader - Chrisman, Laura, Williams, Patrick,1993
Book | Core Text | Read this chapter: Chandra Talpade Mohanty, ‘Under Western Eyes:Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses’ in Patrick Williams & Laura Chrisman,Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester
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Wheatsheaf, 1993).
Week 15 (3 items)
Colonial Discourse and Post-colonial Theory: Reader - Chrisman, Laura, Williams, Patrick,1993
Book | Core Text | Read this chapter: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, ‘Can the SubalternSpeak?’ in Patrick Williams & Laura Chrisman, Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory:A Reader (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993).
Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory - Robert J. C. Young, 1994Book | Core Text | Read this: Robert Young, ‘Hybridity and Diaspora’, Colonial Desire:
Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race (London: Routledge, 1995), pp. 1-28.
The location of culture - Bhabha, Homi K., 2004Book | Core Text | Homi Bhabha, ‘Signs Taken for Wonders: Questions of Ambivalence
and Authority Under a Tree Outside Delhi, May 1817’, The Location of Culture (London andNew York: Routledge, 2000), pp. 102-22. NB: This is provided in the back of your modulehandbook.
African Texts Unit (10 items)For this unit, you will need to obtain a copy of each of the primary texts. Secondary textsare available on NOW as digitized documents, unless otherwise stated.
Week 17 (2 items)
Chinua Achebe : Things fall apart - Harold Bloom, c2010Book | Core Text | First primary text on the African unit. A classic novel by Achebe, 'the
father of African literature'.
The writer and his community - Chinua AchebeChapter | Recommended Reading | This digital copy has been made under the terms of
a CLA Licence: it is only available to members of ENGL35905/15. Please make sure thatyou are logged into NOW before you try to access it.
Week 18 (2 items)
A grain of wheat -Ngugi wa Thiongʾo, 2008
Book | Core Text | Read this primary text.
Extract - Ngugi wa Thiong'oChapter | Recommended Reading | This digital copy has been made under the terms of
a CLA Licence: it is only available to members of ENGL35905/15. Please make sure that
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you are logged into NOW before you try to access it.
Week 24 (2 items)
Nervous conditions - Dangarembga, Tsitsi, 2004Book | Core Text | Read this primary text.
Tsitsi Dangarembga - Jane WilkinsonArticle | Recommended Reading | This digital copy has been made under the terms of a
CLA Licence: it is only available to members of ENGL35905/15. Please make sure that youare logged into NOW before you try to access it.
Week 25 (2 items)
Our sister Killjoy: or, Reflections from a black-eyed squint - Aidoo, Ama Ata, 1977Book | Core Text | Read this primary text.
Interview with Ama Ata Aidoo - Sara ChetinArticle | Recommended Reading | This digital copy has been made under the terms of a
CLA Licence: it is only available to members of ENGL35905/15. Please make sure that youare logged into NOW before you try to access it.
Week 26 (2 items)
David's story - Wicomb, Zoe, 2001Book | Core Text | Read this primary text.
African literature: an anthology of criticism and theory - Tejumola Olaniyan Olaniyan, Ato Quayson, 2007
Book | Recommended Reading | Follow the link provided to the digitised chapter by ZoeWicomb, ‘Culture Beyond Colour: A South African Dilemma’, African Literature: AnAnthology of Criticism and Theory, ed. Tejumola Olaniyan and Ato Quayson (Oxford:Blackwell, 2007), pp.178-182.
South Asian Texts Unit (13 items)For this unit, you will need to obtain each of the primary texts. Secondary texts areavailable as digitized documents on NOW, unless otherwise stated.
Week 27 (2 items)
Untouchable - Anand, Mulk Raj, Forster, E. M., 2005Book | Core Text | Read this primary text
"Shit Writing: Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable, the Image of Gandhi and the ProgressiveWriters' Association" in Modernism/Modernity - Ben Conisbee Baer, 2009
Article | Recommended Reading
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Week 29 (2 items)
The Moor's last sigh - Rushdie, Salman, 1995Book | Core Text
'Macaulay's Minutemen': subchapter in Salman Rushdie and Indian Historiography - NicoleWiekgennant Thiara, 2009
Chapter | Recommended Reading
Week 30 (2 items)
Mother India - Khan, Mehboob, [2005]Audio-visual document | Core Text | WE WILL SCREEN THIS FILM DURING THE LECTURE
SESSION (IN 2 PARTS)
"The Texts of Mother India" in Bollywood Cinema: Temples of Desire - Vijay MishraChapter | Recommended Reading
Week 31 (2 items)
Mother India - Khan, Mehboob, [2005]Audio-visual document | Core Text | WE WILL SCREEN THIS FILM DURING THE LECTURE
SESSION (IN 2 PARTS)
"The Nation and Its Women" in The Nation and Its Fragments - Partha ChatterjeeChapter | Recommended Reading
Week 32 (2 items)
The god of small things - Roy, Arundhati, 2004Book | Core Text
The God of Small Things: Arundhati Roy's postcolonial cosmopolitanism - Alex Tickell, 2003Article | Recommended Reading
Week 33 (3 items)
'Gust of Life' - Kavita BhanotChapter | Core Text
'Introduction' - Kavita BhanotChapter | Recommended Reading
Two Pearls - Azmeena LadhaChapter | Recommended Reading
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Further reading (77 items)
Postcolonial Literature/ Postcolonial Studies: general resources (25 items)
Past the last post: theorising post-colonialism and post-modernism - Ian Adam, Helen Tiffin, 1991
Book | Recommended Reading
Feminist genealogies, colonial legacies, democratic futures - Alexander, M. Jacqui,Mohanty, Chandra Talpade, 1997
Book | Recommended Reading
The empire writes back: theory and practice in post-colonial literatures - Ashcroft, Bill,Griffiths, Gareth, Tiffin, Helen, 2002
Book | Recommended Reading
The post-colonial studies reader - Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin, 2006Book | Recommended Reading
The location of culture - Bhabha, Homi K., 2004Book | Core Text
Colonial and postcolonial literature: migrant metaphors - Boehmer, Elleke, 2005Book | Recommended Reading
Black women, writing, and identity: migrations of the subject - Boyce Davies, Carole, 1994Book | Recommended Reading
The post-colonial question: common skies, divided horizons - Chambers, Iain, Chambers,Iain, Curti, Lidia, 1996
Book | Recommended Reading
Writing diaspora: tactics of intervention in contemporary cultural studies - Chow, Rey,1993
Book | Recommended Reading
Decolonizing Feminisms: Race, Gender and Empire Building - Donaldson, Laura E., 1993Book | Recommended Reading
Manichean aesthetics: the politics of literature in colonial Africa - JanMohamed, Abdul R.,1983
Book | Recommended Reading
Colonialism/postcolonialism - Ania Loomba, 2015Book | Recommended Reading
Beginning postcolonialism - John McLeod, 2010Book | Recommended Reading
The Routledge companion to postcolonial studies - 2007Book | Recommended Reading
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Welcome to the jungle: new positions in Black cultural studies - Kobena Mercer, 1994Book | Recommended Reading
Third World women and the politics of feminism - Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Ann Russo,Lourdes Torres, 1991
Book | Recommended Reading
Motherlands: black women's writing from Africa, the Caribbean and South Asia - Nasta,Susheila, 1991
Book | Recommended Reading
The Cambridge history of postcolonial literature - Quayson, Ato, 2011Book | Recommended Reading
Imaginary homelands: essays and criticism, 1981-91 - Rushdie, Salman, 2010Book | Recommended Reading
Culture and imperialism - Said, Edward W., 1994Book | Recommended Reading
After Europe: critical theory and post-colonial writing - Slemon, Stephen, , 1989Book | Recommended Reading
Literature in the modern world: critical essays and documents - Walder, Dennis, 2004Book | Recommended Reading
Colonial Discourse and Post-colonial Theory: Reader - Chrisman, Laura, Williams, Patrick,1993
Book | Core Text
Postcolonialism: an historical introduction - Robert Young, 2001Book | Recommended Reading
Palestinian literature and film in postcolonial feminist perspective - Anna Ball, 2012Book | Recommended Reading
Postcolonial Theory and Theorists (17 items)
In theory: classes, nations, literatures - Aijaz Ahmad, 2008Book | Recommended Reading
Frantz Fanon: critical perspectives - Alessandrini, Anthony C., MyiLibrary, 1999Book | Recommended Reading
Edward Said - Ashcroft, Bill, Ahluwalia, D. P. S., c2009Book | Recommended Reading
An Introduction To Post-colonial Theory - Peter Childs, 1997Book | Recommended Reading
Aime
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Cesaire - Davis, Gregson, 2008
Book | Recommended Reading
The 'true lie' of the nation: Fanon and feminism - Madhu Dubey, 1998Article | Recommended Reading
Fanon: the postcolonial imagination - Gibson, Nigel C., 2003Book | Recommended Reading
Homi K. Bhabha - Eleanor Byrne, 2002Book | Recommended Reading
Nationality between poststructuralism and postcolonial theory: a new cosmopolitanism -Leonard, Philip, 2005
Book | Recommended Reading | Read: Leonard, Philip, ‘“In the shadow of shadows:Spivak, misreading, the native informant’, in Nationality between Poststructuralism andPostcolonial Theory: A New Cosmopolitanism (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005)
Degenerescent lections: legal fictions in Rushdie, Derrida and Bhabha - Philip Leonard,1997
Article | Recommended Reading | Read: Leonard, Philip, ‘Degenerescent Lections: LegalFictions in Rushdie, Derrida and Bhabha’, New Formations vol. 32 (1998)
Feminist postcolonial theory: a reader - Lewis, Reina, Mills, Sara, 2003Book | Recommended Reading
Woman, native, other: writing postcoloniality and feminism - T. Minh-Ha Trinh, ©1989Book | Recommended Reading
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - Morton, Stephen, 2003Book | Recommended Reading
Africana critical theory: reconstructing the black radical tradition, from W.E.B. Du Bois andC.L.R. James to Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral - Rabaka, Reiland, c2009
Book | Recommended Reading
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: in other words - Sangeeta Ray, 2009Book | Recommended Reading
The legacy of Edward W. Said - William V. Spanos, c2009Book | Recommended Reading
Edward Said: a critical reader - Sprinker, Michael, 1992Book | Recommended Reading
African Literature and Culture (23 items)
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African writers on African writing - Killam, G. D., 1973Book | Recommended Reading | Read: Achebe, Chinua, ‘The Role of the Writer in a New
Nation’, African Writers on African Writing, ed. G.D Killam (London: Heinemann, 1973),7-13.
Hopes and impediments: selected essays, 1965-1987 - Achebe, Chinua, 1988Book | Recommended Reading
A dialectic of autonomy and community: Tsisti Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions -Lindsay Pentolfe Aegerter, 1996
Article | Recommended Reading
The theory of African literature: implications for practical critisism - Amuta, Chidi, 1989Book | Recommended Reading
Toward the decolonization of African literature: African fiction and poetry and their critics -Chinweizu, Jemie, Onwuchekwa, Madubuike, Ihechukwu, 1985, 1980
Book | Recommended Reading
Text, theory, space: land, literature, and history in South Africa and Australia -Darian-Smith, Kate, Gunner, Elizabeth, Nuttall, Sarah, 1996
Book | Recommended Reading
Reading Chinua Achebe: language and ideology in fiction - Gikandi, Simon, 1991Book | Recommended Reading
In their own voices: African women writers talk - James, Adeola, 1990Book | Recommended Reading
African textualities: texts, pre-texts, and contexts of African literature - Lindfors, Bernth,1997
Book | Recommended Reading | Read: Lindfors, Bernth, ‘Politics, Culture, and LiteraryForm’, African Textualities: Texts, Pre-Texts, and Contexts of African Literature (Trenton:Africa World Press, 1997), 135-50.
Bastards and bodies in Zoë Wicomb's David's Story - Mike Marais, 2005Article | Recommended Reading
Sembène: imagining alternatives in film and fiction - Murphy, David, 2000Book | Recommended Reading
Melancholic women: the intellectual hysteric(s) in nervous conditions - Supriya Nair, 1995Article | Recommended Reading
From orality to writing: African women writers and the (re)inscription of womanhood -Obioma Nnaemeka, 1994
Article | Recommended Reading
The politics of (m)othering: womanhood, identity, and resistance in African literature -Obioma Nnaemeka, Nnaemeka, Obioma, 1997
Book | Recommended Reading
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The art of Ama Ata Aidoo: polylectics and reading against neocolonialism - Odamtten,Vincent O., 1994
Book | Recommended Reading
The Cambridge history of African and Caribbean literature: Volume 1 - Irele, Abiola,Gikandi, Simon, 2004
Book | Recommended Reading | Ricard, Alain, ‘Africa and Writing’, The CambridgeHistory of African and Caribbean Literature, vol. 1, ed. Abiola Irele and Simon Gikandi(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 153-63.
Loose memory in Toni Morrison's Paradise and Zoë Wicomb's David's Story - StéphaneRobolin, 2006
Article | Recommended Reading | Read: Robolin, Stephane Pierre Raymond, ‘LooseMemory in Toni Morrison's Paradise and Zoe Wicomb's David's Story’, MFS Modern FictionStudies 52: 2 (2006), 297-320.
Caught at the confluence of history: Ama Ata Aidoo's necessary nationalism - RanuSamantrai, 1995
Article | Recommended Reading
Beyond the boundaries: text and context in African literature - Mineke Schipper, 1990Book | Recommended Reading
God's bits of wood - Ousmane, Sembène, 1995Book | Recommended Reading
Contemporary African literature and the politics of gender - Stratton, Florence, 1994Book | Recommended Reading
Chinua Achebe - Yousaf, Nahem, British Council, 2003Book | Recommended Reading
Sembene Ousmane and ‘rhetorical film form’ - Nahem Yousaf, 1995Article | Recommended Reading | Read: Yousaf, Nahem. "Sembene Ousmane and
'Rhetorical Film Forum' ", Wasafiri: Journal of Caribbean, African, Asian and AssociatedLiteratures and Film 22 (Autumn 1995), 49-53.
South Asian Literature and Culture (12 items)
Mother India - Chatterjee, Gayatri, 2002Book | Recommended Reading | This book is a useful accompaniment to the film that is
screened on the module
Indian literature in English - Walsh, William, 1990Book | Recommended Reading
The Vintage book of Indian writing, 1947-1997 - Rushdie, Salman, West, Elizabeth, 1997Book | Recommended Reading
Imaginary homelands: essays and criticism, 1981-91 - Rushdie, Salman, 2010Book | Recommended Reading
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Salman Rushdie and the Third World: myths of the nation - Brennan, Timothy, 1989Book | Recommended Reading
South Asian writers in twentieth-century Britain: culture in translation - Ranasinha, Ruvani,c2007
Book | Recommended Reading
Writing diaspora: South Asian women, culture and ethnicity - Hussain, Yasmin, 2005Book | Recommended Reading | Please can we ensure a copy of this book is available at
Clifton?
Journal of South Asian LiteratureJournal | Recommended Reading
Mahfil: a Quarterly Magazine of South Asian literatureJournal | Recommended Reading
The nation and its fragments: colonial and postcolonial histories - Chatterjee, Partha,c1993
Book | Recommended Reading
Bollywood cinema: temples of desire - Mishra, Vijay, 2002Book | Recommended Reading
Salman Rushdie and Indian historiography: writing the nation into being - Thiara, NicoleWeickgenannt, 2009
Book | Recommended Reading
Key journals (10 items)The following are key journals in Postcolonial Studies and related fields which will help youwith your research.
Alif: Journal of Comparative PoeticsJournal | Recommended Reading
Ariel: a Review of International English LiteratureJournal | Recommended Reading
Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial StudiesJournal | Recommended Reading
The Journal of Commonwealth LiteratureJournal | Recommended Reading
Journal of Postcolonial WritingJournal | Recommended Reading
Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial WritingJournal | Recommended Reading
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Moving Worlds: a Journal of Transcultural WritingsJournal | Recommended Reading
Postcolonial Studies: Journal of the Institute of Postcolonial StudiesJournal | Recommended Reading
Small Axe: a Caribbean Journal of CriticismJournal | Recommended Reading
Sembene Ousmane and ‘rhetorical film form’ - Nahem Yousaf, 1995Article | Recommended Reading
Key websites (3 items)
Introduction to Postcolonial StudiesWebsite | Recommended Reading
World literatures in EnglishWebsite | Recommended Reading
Theory.org.uk: the media theory site - David GauntlettWebsite | Recommended Reading
Digitised Texts (11 items)
Extract - David DabydeenChapter
On not being Milton:nigger talk in England today - David DabydeenChapter
Song of the Creole Gang Women - David DabydeenChapter
IntroductionChapter
Epilogue: women like us - Edwidge DanticatChapter
Challenges of the struggle for sovereignty: changing the world versus writing stories -Merle Hodge
Chapter
Girl - Jamaica KincaidChapter
Chapter One - Hanif KureishiChapter
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Extract - S TayebChapter
Extract from Odysseys - John ThiemeChapter
The Antilles: fragments of epic memory - Derek WalcottChapter
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