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1. World Literatures Written in English |
1.1.- General Introduction: the concepts of colonial, colonialist, and post-colonial literatures
1.2.- Nationalist movements and their influence on the respective literatures
1.3.- Common themes and concerns reflected in these literatures
1.4.-The frame of post-colonial literary theory |
2. African Literatures |
2.1.- The origin and tradition of the African literature written in English
2.2.- Adoption of a new critical perspective
2.3.- African oral tradition
2.4.- Western influences on African literatures
2.5.- J.M. Coetzee: a critical voice
2.6.Buchi Emecheta's and Lauretta Ngcobo's vision of the African woman |
3. Indian Literature |
3.1.- The influence of the epic works Ramayana and Mahabarata in Indian literature
3.2.- Oral tradition in Indian literature
3.3.- The development of an Indian literary tradition
3.4.- Salman Rushdie as a writer and a critic
3.5.- Folk theatre: the example of Girish Karnad |
4. Caribbean Literature |
4.1.- The African roots of Caribbean literature
4.2.- Autobiographical fiction in the West Indies
4.3.- The 'magical' dimension in the Caribbean novel
4.4.- The Indian tradition in Caribbean literature
4.5.- Poetry of the Caribbean: the example of Derek Walcott |
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I. Okpewho, African Oral Literature, 1992, Bloomington: Indianapolis Indiana University
Sandra Pouchet Paquet, Caribbean Autobiography: Cultural Identity and Self-representation, 2002, The University of Wisconsin Press
Mongia Padmini, Contemporary Postcolonial Theory, 1996, Arnold
Graham Huggan, Critical Perspectives on J.M. Coetzee, 1996, MacMillan
Nalini Natarajan, Handbook of Twentieth-Century Literature of India, 1996, Westport, Connecticut Greenwood Press
Jaina C. Sanga, Salman Rushdie's Postcolonial Metaphors, 2001, Westport, Connecticut Greenwood Press
M.K. Booker, The Caribbean Novel in English: An Introduction, 2001, Portsmouth, NH Heinemann
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