Post Colonial Studies (Part 1) - St Joseph's College, Bangalore - 2nd MA English - Syllabus 2009 - 2010

IInd MA English - Semester III - Post Colonial Studies (Part 1) - Syllabus 2009 - 2010

UNIT I : Historical Background

Eric Hobswan : The Age of the Empire - Chapter 3

UNITE II: Colonial Discourse

1. The Picture : Vespucci Discovering America
2. The 16th Century Atlas
3. Columbus Voyage : The British Capitalism
4. It was a Wonderful Silence : Extract from George Lemming"s Natives of my Person
5. Chinweizu : The Colonizer's Logic
6. Macaulay's Minute on Education
7. Marx's essay on British Rule in India
8. Hegel : Extract from Imperilism and Discourse

UNIT III: Counter Discourses

01. Gandhi : Hind Swaraj
02. Braithwaite : National Language
03. Fanon : National Culture
04. Fanon : The Fact of Blackness
05. Marquez's Nobel Lecture
06. Ngugi : The Language of African Litereture
07. Achebe : Conrad's racism
08. Malcolm X : The Ballot or the Bullet
09. Ramabai Ranade's Essay
10. Raja Rao : Foreword to Kanthapura

UNIT IV: Concept

Abrogation Anti Colonialism Apartheid Appropriation Black Studies Centre and Margin/Periphery Colonial Discourse Comprador Countrapuntal Reading Counter Discourse Creole/Creolisation Universality/Universalism Cultural Diversity/Cultural Difference Decolonization Diaspora Dislocation Ethnicity Euro-Centrism

Globalization Hybridity Emperialism Manicheanism Metropolis/Metropolitan Middle Passage Mimicry Nation/Nationalism Nativism Negritude Neo Colonialism Orality Orientalism/Other/other Post colonial Reading Rastafarianism Settler Colony Subaltern Third Word