|
ENG312 - Postcolonial Fiction
Module Reading List
| Primary Texts identifies a number of literary and critical (or theoretical) works which are made the subject of lectures and seminar discussion. A number of additional literary works have also been listed under Secondary Texts, and these can be made the subject of seminar presentations as well as providing points of comparison with texts on the primary list. |
| Primary Texts |
| Literary |
- Joyce Cary, Mister Johnson [1939] (London : Everyman 1995).
- Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart [1958] (London: Penguin 2000).
-
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things [1997] (London: Flamingo 1998).
- Toni Morrison, Beloved [1987] (London : Vintage 1997).
- J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace [1999] (London: Secker & Warburg 1999)
- Monica Ali, Brick Lane ( London : Black Swan 2003) [2003].
|
| Theoretical |
- Homi K. Bhabha, ed., Nation and Narration (London: Routledge, 1990). ColC PN56N19N28
- Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, preface by Jean-Paul Sartre, trans. Constance Farrington (London : Penguin 2001) [1965] ColC DT33 F313; Mag Do. F312
- Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized (London: Earthscan 1990) [1965] ColC DT31 M45
Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (NY: Vintage Books 1994) [1993] ColC CB451.S25
|
[Note: Overhead projections [OHP] and digital material [.htm] of passages from these authors will be supplied during the lecture programme.]
|
[ top ]
| Secondary Texts |
| Literary texts |
- Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Petals of Blood [1977] (London: Penguin 1991)
- Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day [1980] (London: Vintage 2001)
- Wole Soyinka, Aké: The Years of Childhood [1981] (London: Methuen 2000)
- Salman Rushdie, Midnight’ Children [1981] (London: Vintage 1995)
- Ben Okri, The Famished Road [1992] (London: Vintage 2000)
- Hugo Hamilton, The Speckled People [2003] (London: Townhouse 2005)
|
| Critical commentary |
- Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities : Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso 1991) ColS JC311 A656
- Bill Ashcroft, et al., Postcolonial Studies: The Key Concepts (London: Routledge 2000).
- Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths & Helen Tiffin, The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (London: Routledge, 1989) ColC PR9080.A75
- Peter Childs & R. J. Patrick Williams, An Introduction to Post-colonial Theory (NY: Prentice Hall; London: Harvester Wheatsheaf 1997) Jord 325.303/CHI; Mag JV51.C55
- Peter Childs, ed., Post-Colonial Theory and English Literature: A Reader (Edinburgh UP 1999).
- Gregory Castle, ed., Postcolonial Discourses ( Oxford : Blackwell 2001) ColC JV51.P67
- David Theo Goldberg & Ato Quayson, ed., Relocating Postcolonialism ( Oxford : Blackwell 2002) ColC JV51.R45
- Bruce King. New National and Post-Colonial Literatures: An Introduction (Clarendon Press 1996). Jord 820.99171241/NEW
- Alan Lawson, Post-Colonial Literatures in English: General, Theoretical, and Comparative, 1970-1993 (NY: Prentice-Hall 1997) [out of print]
- Ania Loomba, Colonialism / Post Colonialism [The New Critical Idiom] ( London : Routledge 2000) [1998] ColS JV51.L66
- Bart Moore-Gilbert, Postcolonial Theory: Contexts, Practices, Politics (London: Verso 1997). ColS JV51.M66
- Michael Parker & Roger Starkey, Postcolonial Literatures: Achebe, Ngugi, Desai, Walcott [New Casebooks] (Basingstoke: Macmillan 1995) ColC PR9080.P66
- Epifanio San Juan, Beyond Postcolonial Theory (New York: St. Martin’s P, 1999) [no copies]
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Reader: Selected Works of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. (London: Routledge, 1996). Belf 306/SPI
- Dennis Walder, Post-Colonial Literatures in English: History, Language, Theory (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998) ColC PR9080.W17
- Patrick Williams & Laura Chrisman, ed., & intro., Colonial Discourse and Post-colonial Theory: A Reader Publisher (London: Harvester Wheatsheaf 1993). ColS JV51.C73.
|
[ top ]
| Further reading* |
- John Darwin, Britain and Decolonization: the retreat from Empire in the Post-war World (1988).
- Bernard Potter, The Absent-minded Imperialists: What the British Really Thought About Empire (OUP 2004), 475pp.
- Bill Nasson, Britannia’ Empire: Making a British World (Tempus 2004), 254pp.
|
| *This list contains interesting titles which have recently come to our attention. |
ENG312C2 - University of Ulster |