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 FEN 4(3) COl-LITERATURES IN ENGLISH: AMERICAN AND POSTCOLONIAL APRIL 2022 Download

                                                      CALICUT UNIVERSITY.

                                                 BA FUNCTIONAL ENGLISH.

                                        SYLLABUS 2019 ADMISSION ONWARDS

                        LITERATURES IN ENGLISH: Course II: American & Post-Colonial

 

MODULE ONE

A)      Introduction to Postcolonialism.

(Colonialism, Imperialism, Post-colonialism, Diaspora, History, Nationalism)

B) Leading 20th century Post Colonial thinkers.

•        Franz Fanon (National Consciousness, Identity)
•        Edward Said (Concept of Orientalism)
•        HomiBabha (Hybridity, Ambivalence, Mimicry, Diaspora)
•        Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak (Subalternity, Representation)

MODULE TWO.

Poems:

•      Gabriel Okara: Mystic Drum.
•      Margaret Atwood: This is a Photograph of me.
•       Kamala Das: Nani David Diop: Africa.
•       Nissim Ezekiel: Goodbye Party to Miss Pushpa TS (blogginginparis.com/2004/08/22/afrique-africa-by-david-diop-1927-1960/ -)

Drama:

• ·       Vijay Tendulkar: Silence! The Court is in Session – Act I.

Story:

• ·       V Vijayan- After Hanging.

 

MODULE- THREE.

• ·       A brief historical survey of the movements and concerns of American Literature. (Transcendentalism, American Romanticism, Civil War, Beat Generation, Confessionalism, Womanism)

MODULE FOUR.

Poetry:

• ·       “Success is counted Sweetest”/ Emily Dickinson.
• ·       “Anecdote of the Jar”/Wallace Stevens.
• ·       “My Papa’s Waltz”/Theodore Roethke. “Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town”/E. E. Cummings “Tulips” / Sylvia Plath.
• ·       “Dream Deferred” Langston Hughes.

 Fiction and Drama.

·       “Gift of Magi”/ O. Henry.

·       “Old Man and the Sea”/ Ernest Hemingway.

·       “The Hairy Ape”/ Eugene O'Neil.

 

FURTHER READING.

1) Colonialism/Post Colonialism – AniaLoomba.

2) Colonial and Post Colonial Literature IInd Edition – EllekeBoehmer.

3) Literary theory (The basics) – HansBertens.

4) Beginning Theory by PeterBarry.

5) Empire Writes Back: Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin.

 

REFERENCE:

1. ·       Bonglke, Rangrao (Ed) Contemporary American Literature: Poetry, Fiction, Drama and Criticism. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 2002.
2. ·       Iyengar,Sreenivasa K.R. Indian Writing in English, Delhi: Sterling, 1984
3. ·       Naik, M.K. A History of Indian English Delhi: Sahitya Literature Academi, 1982
4. ·       Naik, M. K.(Ed). Perspectives on Indian Poetry in English. New Delhi: Abhinav Publications, 1984.
5. ·       Mathiessew, F.O. American Literature up to Nineteenth Century 6. Collins-An Introduction to American Literature.