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UNIT 2 Postcolonialism: Themes and Key Concepts - Dominant Voices, Marginalised
Voices, Subaltern Identities-Resisting the Norm/Authority,
Hybridity, Hegemony, Mimicry
BLOCK 2: Essays
UNIT 1 Bill Ashcroft: “Introduction” (from The Empire Writes Back)
BLOCK 3: Poetry
UNIT 1 Gabriel Okara: “Piano and Drums”
UNIT 2 Nissim Ezekiel: “Background Casually”
UNIT 3 A.D. Hope: “Australia”
UNIT 4 Derek Walcott: “A Far Cry from Africa”
UNIT 5 Margaret Atwood: “Journey to the Interior”
BLOCK 4: Drama
UNIT 1 Wole Soyinka: The Lion and the Jewel
BLOCK 5: Short Story
UNIT 1 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “The Thing around Your Neck”
BLOCK 6: Novels
UNIT 1 Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea
References
Abraham, Taisha. Introducing Postcolonial Theories. Delhi: Macmillan India Ltd, 2007.
Ahmad, Aijaz. In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures. Delhi: Oxford University
Press, Anderson.
Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism.
London: Verso, 2016
Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. The Post–Colonial Studies Reader.
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