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B.A. ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
DISCIPLINE CORE
B21EG07DC
POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES
CREDITS-6

Course Objectives

1. To introduce the learners to some key theoretical formulations in the field
2. To help develop an awareness of issues – social, political, cultural and

economic – relating to the experience of colonialism and after.

3. To introduce learners to Postcolonial literature, life and culture.
4. To familiarise learners with the most significant writers and their texts from

these areas.

Course Outcomes

On completion of the course, the learners should be able to,

1. have a preliminary knowledge and understanding of the histories and contexts

of colonialism which occasioned the deployment of the terms postcolonialism
and postcoloniality.

2. think critically about the contexts of exploration and colonialism in

relation to postcolonial societies.
3. identify the traits and features of postcolonial literature as a mode of resistance.

4. understand postcolonial culture and its varying modes of literary expression.

5. become familiar with different approaches to culture, nationalism,
multiculturalism, migration, gender and race in the context of post-colonial

societies.
6. read and analyse poetry, drama and fiction using postcolonial theoretical tools.

COURSE DETAILS

BLOCK 1: Introduction - Literary Contexts

UNIT 1 Colonialism

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