1. MA English Semester ii (Fall 2018) Postcolonial Studies (Syllabus)
Lecture Code: PS_L.2
MA English Semester ii (Fall 2018) Postcolonial Studies (Syllabus)
Min Pun, PhD, Associate Professor
Dept of English, PN Campus
Pokhara
24 Sept. 2018

2. Course Title & Structure
ENGL 559: Postcolonial Studies
3 Credit Hours
48 teaching hours, spreading over 16 weeks

3. Course Description
helps understand postcolonial literature and culture within their intellectual contexts.
uses multi-disciplinary approach to explain the ideas and practices that emerged from the dismantling of European empires.
explores issues such as race, culture, and identity; literary and cultural translations, and the politics of resistance.

4. Course Contents
Two Parts
Theoretical Part
Application Part

5. Course Contents: Theoretical Part
Unit 1: Key Concepts [9 hrs]
Introduction
Framing identities
Orality and Literacy
The Politics of Rewriting
Postcolonial Translations
Unit 2: Multi-Disciplinarity [9 hrs]
Nation and Nationalisms
Feminism and Womanism
Cartographies and Visualization
Marginality: Representations of Subalternity, Aboriginality and Race
Anthropology and Postcolonialism
Publishing Histories

6. Course Contents: Application Part
Unit 3: Postcolonial Literature from the U.S. [10 hrs]
Morris’ From the Glittering World
Johnson’s Middle Passage
Unit 4: Postcolonial African Literature [10 hrs]
Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin
Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy or Reflections from a Black-eyed Squint
Unit 5: Asian Postcolonial Literature [10 hrs]
Bama’s Karukku
Sinng’s The Train to Pakistan

7. Evaluation Scheme Internal:
Evaluation includes term paper, participation, presentation, quizzes, written examination, etc.
External:
Mark-allocation for the final exam is as follows:
Essay type question from units 1-2: 1x14 (1 out of 2) = 14
Essay type question from units 3-5: 2x10 (2 out of 3) = 20
Critical analysis of a longer passage from units
3-5: 1x16 = 16
Short questions from units 1-2: 2x5 (2 out of 3) = 10

8. Prescribed Texts Major Text for Theoretical Part:
Chew, Shirlcy & David Richards. A Concise Companion to Postcolonial Literature. Malden, MA: Willey-Blackwell, 2010.
Texts for Application Part
Aidoo, Ama Ata. Our Sister Killjoy or Reflections from a Black- eyed Squint. London: Longman, 1997.
Bama, Faustina. Karukku.Tr.By Lakshmi Holmstrom. 2nded. New Delhi: OUP, 2014.
Johnson, Charles. Middle Passage. New York: Scribner, 1998.
Lamming, George. In the Castle of My Skin. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1991.
Morris, Irvin. From the Glittering World: A Navajo Story. Norman and London: U of Oklahoma P, 1997.
Singh, Khushwant. The Train to Pakistan. New Delhi: Ravi Dayal, 1998.

9. Associate Professor, Dept of English Tribhuvan University
Min Pun, PhD
Associate Professor, Dept of English
Tribhuvan University
Prithvi Narayan Campus, Pokhara
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