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Primary Texts (Listed in The Order They Will Appear On The Course)

This document outlines the course readings and schedule for a postcolonial literature course. It includes: 1. A list of 12 primary texts that will be covered over the course of the term, ranging from short stories to novels. 2. A list of 4 recommended secondary readings in postcolonial theory to provide context. 3. An assignment for students to keep a learning journal reflecting on their reading over the vacation and throughout the course. 4. An overview of the topics and assignments to be covered in the first week of class, including introducing concepts in postcolonial studies and comparing attitudes to empire in two short stories.

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Primary Texts (Listed in The Order They Will Appear On The Course)

This document outlines the course readings and schedule for a postcolonial literature course. It includes: 1. A list of 12 primary texts that will be covered over the course of the term, ranging from short stories to novels. 2. A list of 4 recommended secondary readings in postcolonial theory to provide context. 3. An assignment for students to keep a learning journal reflecting on their reading over the vacation and throughout the course. 4. An overview of the topics and assignments to be covered in the first week of class, including introducing concepts in postcolonial studies and comparing attitudes to empire in two short stories.

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READING POSTCOLONIAL TEXTS

Autumn 2013
Tutor: Denise deCaires Narain (D.Decaires-Narain@sussex.ac.uk) Room B268
Primary Texts (listed in the order they will appear on the course)
1. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad & ‘The Beach of Falesa’ Robert Louis
Stevenson (both available online in various places and in An Anthology of
Colonial and Postcolonial Short Fiction, eds, Dean Baldwin and Patrick J.
Quinn.
2. The Ventriloquist’s Tale, Pauline Melville
3. House of Hunger, (title story & ‘Black Skin What mask’) Dambudzo
Marechera . Jean Rhys, ‘The Day They Burned the Books’, (in her
collection Tigers are Better Looking or in An Anthology of Colonial and
Postcolonial Short Fiction, eds, Dean Baldwin and Patrick J. Quinn
4. The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
5. Potiki, Patricia Grace
6. Assessment and Reading Week
7. ‘Women of Algiers in Their Apartment’ Assia Djebar & Foe, J.M. Coetzee
8. ‘The Wind and the Boy’, Bessie Head; ‘Minutes of Glory’ Ngugi Wa
Thiong’o; both in An Anthology of Colonial and Postcolonial Short
Fiction, eds, Dean Baldwin and Patrick J. Quinn.
9. By the Sea, Abdulrazak Gurnah
10. ‘The Courter’ from East, West, Salman Rushdie and also available in An
Anthology of Colonial and Postcolonial Short Fiction, eds, Dean Baldwin and
Patrick J. Quinn & ‘The Upsidedownness of the World as it Unfolds’ from
Out on Main Street Shani Mootoo (photocopy available)
11. A Small Place, Jamaica Kincaid
12. Course Review and writing workshop

Secondary Reading:
The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, Ashcroft, Griffiths & Tiffin (eds);
Beginning Postcolonialism, John McLeod;
Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader, P.Williams and L.Chrisman
(eds);
Postcolonial Discourse: An Anthology, ed.,Gregory Castle;
Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction, Robert Young.

Vacation Exercise: I’d like you to keep a Learning Journal/Diary in which you
reflect on any reading that you do in the vacation as preparation for the course. The
idea is to keep an account of your reading as the course progresses, so I’ll be asking
you to keep this journal going during the term too.Rather than keeping detailed
information and notes, the LD is a space for you to reflect back critically on the ideas,
concepts, controversies and arguments suggested by the literary and theoretical
texts we will be reading – and for you to start identifying what you are interested in
writing about (and in what form) for your assessed pieces.
Week 1: Exploration, discovery and travel in colonial and
postcolonial studies.
Introduction to each other and the course; set up presentation groups; introduction to
some key concepts in postcolonial studies.
- Read Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (available electronically via the
library) and The Beach of Falesa by Robert Louis Stevenson (available
electronically; also available in An Anthology of Colonial and Postcolonial
Short Fiction.
Make notes as you read in relation to the following questions:
- What kinds of attitudes to empire and colonialism do these two texts imply –
and how might you compare these attitudes?
- What role does gender play in the construction of ‘the native’ as ‘other’?
- How do these two texts position you as a reader – explicitly and implicitly?
Dip into one of the postcolonial readers listed above and start making notes towards
defining this term and your expectations of the texts you will be reading on this
course. Everyone to come with 750 words of notes to the first seminar. A full reading
list and course outline will be distributed in the first seminar.

Happy reading – and happy holiday!

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