UCJAJNP026 Postkoloniální literatura

Filozoficko-přírodovědecká fakulta v Opavě
léto 2025
Rozsah
0/2/0. 4 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
Mgr. Veronika Nogolová, PhD. (cvičící)
Garance
Mgr. Veronika Nogolová, PhD.
Ústav cizích jazyků – Filozoficko-přírodovědecká fakulta v Opavě
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
The aim of the course is to encourage students to have an independent, critical and rational capacity of analysis, to train students in an engaged, informed and perceptive reading of a variety of postcolonial texts in English, to provide students with the ability to compare texts of different kinds and different cultural, social and political agendas, and to teach them how to use theoretical tools and secondary sources in an independent and critical fashion.
Výstupy z učení
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.
Osnova
  • This course covers the fastest-developing area of literature written in the English language: the postcolonial writing. The students will be aquainted 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.
    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

Literatura
  • Young, Robert, J. C. Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race, London: Routledge, 1995. info
  • Wisker, Gina. Key Concepts In Postcolonial Literature. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. info
  • Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. The Empire Writes Back. London: Routledge, 2001. info
  • Loomba, Ania. Colonialism/Postcolonialism. London: Routledge, 1998. info
  • Lee, Robert A., ed. Other Britain, Other British. London: Pluto, 1995. info
  • Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. The Postcolonial Studies Reader. London: Routledge, 1995. info
  • Said, Edward W. Culture and Imperialism. London: Ghatto and Windus, 1993. info
Výukové metody
seminář
Metody hodnocení
zkouška
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
80% attendance
Active participation in the classes
Analytical essay + oral exam

Literature:
Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, The Empire Writes Back, London: Routledge, 2001.
Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin, eds., The Postcolonial Studies Reader, London: Routledge, 1995.
Lee, Robert A., ed., Other Britain, Other British, London: Pluto, 1995.
Loomba, Ania, Colonialism/Postcolonialism, London: Routledge, 1998.
Said, Edward W., Culture and Imperialism, London: Ghatto and Windus, 1993.
Wisker, Gina, Key Concepts In Postcolonial Literature, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Young, Robert, J. C., Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race, London: Routledge, 1995.
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích léto 2022, léto 2023, léto 2024.