FPF:UCJAU025 Postcolonial Literature - Course Information
UCJAU025 Postcolonial Literature
Faculty of Philosophy and Science in OpavaSummer 2015
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Radek Glabazňa, Ph.D., MA (lecturer)
Mgr. Radek Glabazňa, Ph.D., MA (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Radek Glabazňa, Ph.D., MA
Institute of Foreign Languages – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- The students will have adequate knowledge of the history of British and American literature and will be familiar with critical and theoretical tools for the study of modern literary texts.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Secondary School Teacher Training in English (programme FPF, N7504 UcSS)
- Course objectives
- This course covers the fastest-developing area of literature written in the English language: the postcolonial writing. The students will be acquainted with the key personalities and texts of the emerging postcolonial canon and encouraged to approach these texts from a variety of perspectives in order to appreciate the relevance of postcolonial writing for the contemporary world.
- Syllabus
- 1. Derek Walcott
2. Hanif Kureishi
3. Frantz Fanon
4. Salman Rushdie
5. Anita Desai
6. Rana Dasgupta
7. Monica Ali
8. Chinua Achebe
9. Amos Tutuola
10. Tanure Ojaide
11. Wole Soyinka
12. Ngugi wa Thiong?o
- 1. Derek Walcott
- Literature
- recommended literature
- Young, Robert, J. C. Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race, London: Routledge, 1995. info
- Loomba, Ania. Colonialism/Postcolonialism. info
- Said, Edward W. Culture and Imperialism. info
- Wisker, Gina. Key Concepts In Postcolonial Literature. info
- Lee, Robert A., ed. Other Britain, Other British. info
- Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. The Empire Writes Back. info
- Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin. The Postcolonial Studies Reader. info
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
- Teacher's information
- 80% attendance
Active participation in the classes
Analytical essay + oral exam
- Enrolment Statistics (Summer 2015, recent)
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