Postcolonial Studies: Part:2 - 2nd MA English - Syllabus 2009 - 2010

UNIT I : POST COLONIAL THEORY:

1. Edward Said : Orientalism (extract) (2nd Test) - Guides: 1 | 2 | 3 | Wiki
2. Ashis Nandy : Intimate Enemy (Passage on Aurobindo)
3. Benedict Anderson : Imagined Community
4. Frederic Jameson : Third World Literature in the Age of Multinational Capitalism
5. Chandra T. Mohanty : Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourse (extract) (2nd Test) - Guides: 1 | 2 | Wiki
6. Jan Mohammed : The Economy of Manichean Allegory: The Fuction of Difference in Colonialist Literature (extract) (2nd Test)
7. Homi Bhabha : Signs taken for Wonders (extract)
8. Ranajit Guha : On Some Aspects of the Historiography of Colonial India (2nd Test) - Analysis
9. Gauri Vishwanathan : The beginnings of English literaty Study in India (extract)
(extracts fro The Post Colonial Studies Reader)

UNIT II : POSTCOLONIAL TEXTS : A SELECTION:

1. David Diop : Africa
2. Mongane Wally Serote : Poem on Black and White
3. Sipho Sepemla : On Judgement Day
4. Sipho sepemla : Civilization Aha
5. Popular Cultural texts from the Carribean :

A) Dub

(i) Mikey Smith : Mi Cyaan Believe If
(ii) EK Brainthwaite : Wings of a Dove

B) Reggae

(i) Marley and others : Get up and Stand Up
(ii) Peter Tosh : Equal Rights

C) Calypso

(i) David Rudder : Fire in de Lagger
(ii) Mighty Sparrow : Marajin

6. Selection from Male Madeshwara Kavya

REQUIRED READING:
1. Partha Chatterjee : Nationalism as a Problem
2. Breckenridge and Peter Van Deer : Orientalism and the Post-colonial Predicament
3. Gyan Prakash : Post Colonial Criticism and Indian Historiography
4. Leela Gandhi : Postcolonial Theory (esp. the selection on oprescribed texts in this section)
5. Introductory essays on Post colonial theory and criticism
6. Post Colonial Literatures(selections)

Note: More Texts may be added later.