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Postcolonial
Fiction in English (ENG312)
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| The ENG312 website has been compiled to provide you with much of the information that you need to
undertake the ENG312 Module on “Postcolonial Fiction” successfully. Every page in the site is accessible either
from the index on this contents page (below) or from the green navigation frame on the left-hand side of your browser. |
| Besides a Lecture Timetable, Seminar Lists, and various notice-boards relating to the assessment methods for your work on the Module, the Website contains biographical & bibliographical material, topics for discussion, and student submissions (Presentations) from earlier sessions of this Module. All of this is meant to assist you in your work but is not to substitute for independent study. |
Please don’t hesitate to ask for explanations. Say “stop” if too much or the wrong kind of material is being delivered in the classroom or on website.
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I hope that you will share with me in recognising that this module is about literature but it is also (therefore) about life and how we live it. In particular, it is about the world that we inherit from the Age of Empire and the world that we inhabit today, in the era of the New World Order. How far there is a connection between these is part of the subject of the module.
For the rest, our subject is about “differences” in global society - race, religion, gender, class and nation - and how these have been mediated by the best writers. In examining their works, we make the humanist assumption that the best writers are those who bring into view the real structure of experience in its spiritual and material aspects, and do so with a clear regard for the aesthetic dimension of their art considered as a “way of seeing”.
So considered, literature does the work of mind and spirit. It contributes to the making of the world and it makes the world more livable. |
Best wishes & thanks,
Bruce Stewart
(Module Co-Ordinator)
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ENG312C2 - University of Ulster |