Aims & Objectives:

This course aims at introducing students to a selection of literature and criticism generated by the colonizers and the colonized. Students will be able to participate meaningfully in the debate inaugurated by Post Colonial literary studies. They will be able to identify the common thematic concerns and stylistic features in the cross continental voices of the empire. They will also be able to recognize post-colonial literature and criticism as a distinct and significant addition to English literary studies.

Course Contents

 

  1. Chinua Achebe                                  Things Fall Apart
  2. Paul Mark Scott                                Jewel in the Crown                                        
  3. Zulfikar Ghose                                  The Murder of Aziz Khan
  4. Gabriel Garcia Marquez                  One Hundred Years of Solitude
  5. Paulo Coelho                                     Al-Chemist

Course Material