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SACRED HEART COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS) Department of English MA English Course Plan 2018 – 19 Semester IV COURSE PLAN PROGRAMME MA ENGLISH SEMESTER 4 COURSE CODE AND 16P4ENGT16 - LITERATURE AND THE CREDIT 4 TITLE EMPIRE HOURS/WEEK 5 HOURS/SEM 90 FACULTY NAME DR. JOSEPH VARGHESE COURSE OBJECTIVES To identify the complexity of origin and development of the terminology specific to colonial and postcolonial discourses. To understand the depth and the diverse genres of postcolonial literature. To explore the discursive nature of colonialism, and the counter-discursive impulses of postcolonial theory, narratives and performance texts. To compare and contrast the issues, conflicts, preoccupations, and themes of the various post-colonial literature To critically analyse the theoretical practices based on the colonial experience and the writers’ attempt to free from colonial domination. To describe the major features of postcolonial writings and the creation and exploitation of the “other” worlds, and multiple gender repression visualized in the writing of select writings. LEARNING VALUE SESSION TOPIC REMARKS RESOURCES ADDITIONS MODULE I 1 General Introduction – Literature and PPT/Lecture video the Empire 2 Bill Ashroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen PPT/Lecture Tiffin: Cutting the Ground: Critical Models of Post- Colonial Literatures” in the in The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures. Routledge, 1989. (Chapter 1 PP.15-37) 3 Bill Ashroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen PPT/Lecture Tiffin: Cutting the Ground: Critical Models of Post- Colonial Literatures” in the in The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures. Routledge, 1989. (Chapter 1 PP.15-37) 4 Bill Ashroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen PPT/Lecture E-resource Tiffin: Cutting the Ground: Critical Models of Post- Colonial Literatures” in the in The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures. Routledge, 1989. (Chapter 1 PP.15-37) 5 Bill Ashroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen PPT/Lecture Tiffin: Cutting the Ground: Critical Models of Post- Colonial Literatures” in the in The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures. Routledge, 1989. (Chapter 1 PP.15-37) 6 Frantz Fanon: Spontaneity: Its Strength PPT/Lecture and Weakness” in The Wretched of the Earth. Trans. Constance Parrington. Penguin, 1963. (Chapter 2 PP. 85-118) 7 Frantz Fanon: Spontaneity: Its Strength PPT/Lecture and Weakness” in The Wretched of the Earth. Trans. Constance Parrington. Penguin, 1963. (Chapter 2 PP. 85-118) 8 Frantz Fanon: Spontaneity: Its Strength PPT/Lecture E resource and Weakness” in The Wretched of the Earth. Trans. Constance Parrington. Penguin, 1963. (Chapter 2 PP. 85-118) 9 Frantz Fanon: Spontaneity: Its Strength PPT/Lecture and Weakness” in The Wretched of the Earth. Trans. Constance Parrington. Penguin, 1963. (Chapter 2 PP. 85-118) 10 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: “Can the PPT/Lecture Subaltern Speak?” (Extract from Chapter 3 History of A Critique of Postcolonial Reason) in The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. W. W. Norton, 2001 (PP. 2197-2208) 11 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: “Can the PPT/Lecture E resource Subaltern Speak?” (Extract from Chapter 3 History of A Critique of Postcolonial Reason) in The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. W. W. Norton, 2001 (PP. 2197-2208) 12 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: “Can the PPT/Lecture Subaltern Speak?” (Extract from Chapter 3 History of A Critique of Postcolonial Reason) in The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. W. W. Norton, 2001 (PP. 2197-2208) 13 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: “Can the PPT/Lecture E resource Subaltern Speak?” (Extract from Chapter 3 History of A Critique of Postcolonial Reason) in The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. W. W. Norton, 2001 (PP. 2197-2208) 14 Homi K. Bhabha : “Of Mimicry and Man: PPT/Lecture The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse” in Homi K. Bhabha. Location of Culture. Routledge, 1994. (PP.85-92) MODULE II 15 In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens- Lecture Alice Walker 16 In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens- Lecture E resource Alice Walker 17 In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens- Lecture Alice Walker 18 In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens- Lecture Alice Walker 19 Salman Rushdie: “Imaginary Lecture Homelands” in Imaginary Homelands. Vintage, 2010.(PP.9-21) 20 Salman Rushdie: “Imaginary PPT/Lecture E resource Homelands” in Imaginary Homelands. Vintage, 2010.(PP.9-21) 21 Salman Rushdie: “Imaginary PPT/Lecture Homelands” in Imaginary Homelands. Vintage, 2010.(PP.9-21) 22 Phillis Wheatley : On Being Brought PPT/Lecture from Africa to America (poem) 23 Phillis Wheatley : On Being Brought PPT/Lecture from Africa to America (poem) 24 Tenzin Tsundu : Pedro’s Flute (poem) Lecture E resource 25 Tenzin Tsundu : Pedro’s Flute (poem) Lecture 26 Internal Assessment Test -1 MODULE III 27 - 33 Ngugi wa Thiongo : A Grain of Wheat PPT/Lecture Play (Fiction) Ngugi wa Thiongo : A Grain of Wheat PPT/Lecture 34 (Fiction) Ngugi wa Thiongo : A Grain of Wheat PPT/Lecture 35 (Fiction) Ngugi wa Thiongo : A Grain of Wheat Lecture Quiz 36 (Fiction) 37 J. M. Coetzee : Disgrace (Fiction) Lecture Q & Ans 38 J. M. Coetzee : Disgrace (Fiction) PPT/Lecture 39 J. M. Coetzee : Disgrace (Fiction) PPT/Lecture 40 J. M. Coetzee : Disgrace (Fiction) PPT/Lecture Sally Morgan : My Place PPT/Lecture 41 (Autobiography) Sally Morgan : My Place Lecture 42 (Autobiography) Sally Morgan : My Place PPT/Lecture 43 (Autobiography) E resource Sally Morgan : My Place PPT/Lecture 44 (Autobiography) Mahasweta Devi : “Douloti the PPT/Lecture Bountiful” in Imaginary Maps. Thema 45 (Calcutta), 2001 Mahasweta Devi : “Douloti the PPT/Lecture Bountiful” in Imaginary Maps. Thema 46 (Calcutta), 2001 Mahasweta Devi : “Douloti the PPT/Lecture Bountiful” in Imaginary Maps. Thema 47 (Calcutta), 2001 48 - 49 Mahasweta Devi : “Douloti the PPT/Lecture Bountiful” in Imaginary Maps. Thema (Calcutta), 2001 MODULE III Derek Walcot: “Ruins of a Great PPT/Lecture CO 4 50 House” (poem) Derek Walcot: “Ruins of a Great PPT/Lecture CO 4 51 House” (poem) Gabriel Okara : “Piano and Drums” PPT/Lecture Video CO 4 52 (poem) Gabriel Okara : “Piano and Drums” PPT/Lecture CO 4 53 (poem) Wole Soyinka: “The Lion and the PPT/Lecture CO 4 54 Jewel” (play) Wole Soyinka: “The Lion and the 55 Jewel” (play) Wole Soyinka: “The Lion and the Lecture Debate CO 5 56 Jewel” (play) Wole Soyinka: “The Lion and the PPT/Lecture CO 5 57 Jewel” (play) Girish Karnard : “The Dreams of Tippu PPT/Lecture Movie CO 5 58 Sultan” (play) Girish Karnard : “The Dreams of Tippu PPT/Lecture CO 5 59 Sultan” (play) Girish Karnard : “The Dreams of Tippu PPT/Lecture E resource CO 5 60 Sultan” (play) Girish Karnard : “The Dreams of Tippu PPT/Lecture CO 5 61 Sultan” (play) Pablo Neruda: “The United Fruit Co.” PPT/Lecture CO 5 (A poem from Canto General (1950) 62 Pablo Neruda: “The United Fruit Co.” Lecture Demo video CO 5 63 (A poem from Canto General (1950) Pablo Neruda: “The United Fruit Co.” Lecture CO 5 64 (A poem from Canto General (1950) Pablo Neruda: “The United Fruit Co.” Lecture Group CO 5 65 (A poem from Canto General (1950) discussion Chinua Achebe: “An Image of Africa: Lecture Video CO 5 Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness” in Hopes and Impediments. Random Hous, 1988. (PP.1-20) 66 Chinua Achebe: “An Image of Africa: PPT/Lecture CO 5 Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness” in Hopes and Impediments. Random 67 Hous, 1988. (PP.1-20) Chinua Achebe: “An Image of Africa: PPT/Lecture CO 5 Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness” in Hopes and Impediments. Random 68 Hous, 1988. (PP.1-20) Chinua Achebe: “An Image of Africa: PPT/Lecture Video CO 5 Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness” in Hopes and Impediments. Random 69 Hous, 1988. (PP.1-20) Chinua Achebe: “An Image of Africa: Lecture CO 6 Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness” in Hopes and Impediments. Random 70 Hous, 1988. (PP.1-20) George Lamming: “A Monster, a Child, Lecture CO 6 a Slave” in Pleasures of Exile. Univ. of Michigan Press, 1960. (PP. 95-117) 71 George Lamming: “A Monster, a Child, Lecture CO 6 a Slave” in Pleasures of Exile. Univ. of Michigan Press, 1960. (PP. 95-117) 72 George Lamming: “A Monster, a Child, Lecture E resource CO 6 a Slave” in Pleasures of Exile. Univ. of Michigan Press, 1960. (PP. 95-117) 73 George Lamming: “A Monster, a Child, Lecture CO 6 a Slave” in Pleasures of Exile. Univ. of Michigan Press, 1960. (PP. 95-117) 74 Teresa Hubel: “From ‘Liberal Lecture CO 6 Imperialism as A Passage to India’” Post-Colonial Theory and English 75 Literature: A Reader. (Ed.) Peter Childs. Teresa Hubel: “From ‘Liberal Lecture Video CO 6 Imperialism as A Passage to India’” Post-Colonial Theory and English 76 Literature: A Reader. (Ed.) Peter Childs. Teresa Hubel: “From ‘Liberal Lecture CO 6 Imperialism as A Passage to India’” Post-Colonial Theory and English 77 Literature: A Reader. (Ed.) Peter Childs. Teresa Hubel: “From ‘Liberal Lecture Video CO 6 Imperialism as A Passage to India’” Post-Colonial Theory and English 78 Literature: A Reader. (Ed.) Peter Childs. EdEdward W. Said : “Narrative and Lecture CO 6 Social Space” in Culture and Imperialism. Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. (Chapter 2 Section 1 PP. 62-80) inburgh Univ. Press, 1999.(PP: 351- 79 362) EdEdward W. Said : “Narrative and Lecture CO 6 Social Space” in Culture and Imperialism. Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. (Chapter 2 Section 1 PP. 62-80) inburgh Univ. Press, 1999.(PP: 351- 80 362) EdEdward W. Said : “Narrative and Lecture E resource CO 6 Social Space” in Culture and Imperialism. Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. (Chapter 2 Section 1 PP. 62-80) inburgh Univ. Press, 1999.(PP: 351- 81 362) EdEdward W. Said : “Narrative and Lecture CO 6 82 Social Space” in Culture and Imperialism.