Courses

Undergraduate Modules Taught-

  1. British Literature in Old and Medieval Period

  2. British Literature in Romantic Period

  3. Literary Modernism

  4. Feminism and Postcolonialism

  5. Postructural Theory


Postgraduate Module Taught-

  1. Postcolonialism

The theoretical discourse of postcolonialism is introduced to students with the learning objective of letting them first figure out the main aspects and strands of postcolonialism, its historical and cultural objectives. Students are then encouraged to apply these theoretical angles to selected texts by commonwealth and south asian writers.


Recommended Videos-

For introduction to the field- www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7DtnDt8its

For Orientalism-www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVC8EYd_Z_g

For Subaltern Studies - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxM-BbTRey0

Course Outline (One Semester, 12 weeks course, 6 Credit)

Part-I

Hind Swaraj, by M.K. Gandhi (Week-1)

Decolonising the Mind by N'gugi Wa Thingo and The Wretched of the Earth by Fanon (Week-2)

Can Non-Europeans Think? by Hamid Dabashi (Week-3)

First Assignment

Part-II

Orientalism by Edward Said (Week-4)

A Critique of Postcolonial Reason by Gayatri Spivak (Week-5)

A Critique of Black Reason by Achille Mbembe (Week-6)

Second Assignment

Part-III

Location of Culture by Homi. K. Bhaba (Week-7)

Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda, Kamala Das, Keki.N.Daruwala, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley and so on. (Week-8)

Selected fictions by Mahasweta Devi, Namdeo Dhasal, Rabidranath Tagore, Prem Chand and Arundhati Roy. (Week-9)

Part-IV

Provincializing Europe, Dipesh Chakravarti. (Week-10)

Nation and its Fragments by Partha Chatterjee(Week-11)

Subaltern Studies and its Critiques (Week-12)

Final Presentation on- what comes after postcolonial theory?