Mondays 13.15 p.m. / LT15 [H133]
Thursdays
14.15 p.m. / LT14 [H132]
| Weeks |
Dates |
Topic/Title/Text |
Venue |
Spkr |
| Week 1 |
25 Jan. |
Preliminary Lecture & Module Organisation |
LT14 |
BS |
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| Week 2 |
31 Jan. |
The Wider Context: Empire & Culture |
LT15 |
BS |
| |
1 Feb. |
Joyce Cary, Mr. Johnston |
LT14 |
BS |
| |
| Week 3 |
7 Feb. |
The Colonial Condition: Ethnicity & Race |
LT15 |
BS |
| |
8 Feb. |
Albert Memmi, The Coloniser and the Colonised |
LT14 |
BS |
| |
| Week 4 |
14 Feb. |
Postcolonial Subjects: Culture & Nation |
LT15 |
BS |
| |
15 Feb. |
Chinua Achebe, Things
Fall Apart |
LT14 |
BS |
| |
| Week 5 |
21 Feb. |
Politics of Liberation: Resistance & Revolution |
LT15 |
BS |
| |
22 Feb. |
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched
of the Earth |
LT14 |
BS |
| |
| Week 6 |
28 Feb. |
Diasporic Destinies: Slavery & Negritude |
LT15 |
BS |
| |
1 Mar. |
Toni Morrison, Beloved |
LT14 |
BS |
| |
| Week 7 |
7 Mar. |
Structures of Feeling: Binarism & Altereity |
LT15 |
BS |
| |
8 Mar. |
Edward Said, Imperialism and Culture |
LT14 |
BS |
| |
| Week 8 |
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STUDY WEEK |
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| Week 9 |
21 Mar. |
Post-colonial Order: Community & Self |
LT15 |
BS |
| |
22 Mar. |
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things |
LT14 |
BS |
| |
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EASTER VACATION |
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| Week 10 |
11 Apr. |
Dialectics of Freedom: Ambivalence & Hybridity |
LT15 |
BS |
| |
12 Apr. |
Homi Bhabha, ed., Nation and Narration |
LT14 |
BS |
| |
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| Week 11 |
18 Apr. |
Problems of Expression: Language & Identity |
LT15 |
BS |
| |
19 Apr. |
Monica Ali, Brick Lane |
LT14 |
BS |
| |
| Week 12 |
25 Apr. |
“Staying On”: The Colonial Remainder |
LT15 |
BS |
| |
26 Apr. |
J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace |
LT14 |
BS |
| Revision classes will be scheduled for lecture-hall and seminar rooms during the “13th Week” on request. |
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