Postcolonial literature - selected chapters - OPNA2A111A

• Title: Postkoloniální literatura – vybrané kapitoly
• Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: 0 / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D.

Annotation

English

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (14.09.2020)

The course will focus on a range of Anglophone literatures, recently referred to as postcolonial literatures (New Zealand, Indian, Nigerian, South African, Anglophone Caribbean, and Australian literatures). Both the lectures and seminars familiarise the students with key literary texts of these literatures as well as theoretical assumptions of postcolonial criticism informed by postmodern and poststructuralist strategies. The major focus of the seminars will be an interpretation of primary sources selected from a wide geographical spectrum of contemporary Anglophone literatures from the point of view of postcolonial thought as well as TEFL.

Czech

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (10.09.2021)

Kurz se zaměřuje na celou řadu anglofonních literatur, pro které se vžil název postkoloniální literatury (novozélandskou, indickou, nigerijskou, jihoafrickou, karibskou, australskou). Jak semináře tak i přednášky svým obsahem studenty seznamují s klíčovými literárními texty těchto literatur ja rovněž teoretickými východisky postkoloniální kritiky - zejména postmoderními a poststrukturalistickými strategiemi. Hlavním cílem výuky je seznámit s díly současné anglofonní literatury z hlediska jejich využití coby možných výukových materiálů.

Aim of the course

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (10.09.2021)

·         to introduce students to the major issues of a wide range of postcolonial literatures

·         to enable students to identify dominant and distinct themes in individual literatures

·         to enable students to relate the selected texts to their (i.e., the countries’) cultural backgrounds

·         to introduce students to the notion of intercultural communicative competency and its implications as far as postcolonial texts and their employment in the classroom is concerned

Descriptors

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (10.09.2021)

TBD

Literature

English

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (10.09.2021)

The novels to be discussed:

·         Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart 1958 (Nigerian literature)

·         David Malouf: Remembering Babylon 1993(Australian literature) - excerpts

·         Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea 1966 (Anglophone Caribbean literature)

Short stories + excerpts:

·         Catherine Mansfield: "The Wind Blows"(New Zealand Literature)

·          Witi Ihimaera: "The Whale"(New Zealand Literature)

·         Roma Potiki: "Stolen Dreams" – extract (New Zealand Literature)

·         Anita Desai: "Studies in the Park"(Indian Literature in English)

·         Chitra  Banerjee Divakaruni: "Clothes" (Indian Literature in English)

·         Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things – extract (Indian Literature in English) - optional

·         Hari Kunzru : The Impressionist – extract (Indian Literature in English) - optional

·         Bruce Chatwin: The Songlines – extract (Australian literature)

·         Banjo Paterson: "The Man from Snowy River" (Australian literature)

·         Henry Lawson: "The Drover's wife" (Australian literature)

·         Samuel Dickinson Selvon: "The Cricket Match"  (Anglophone Caribbean literature)

·         V.S. Naipaul: "The Night Watchman's Occurrence Book"(Anglophone Caribbean literature)

·         Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: "A Private Experience" (Nigerian literature)

·         Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: "The Headstrong Historian" (Nigerian literature) - optional

·         Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Half of a Yellow Sun – excerpt (Nigerian literature) - optional

·         Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Americanah – excerpt (Nigerian literature) - optional

·         Jekwu Anyaegbuna: "The Swimming Pool" (Nigerian literature) - optional

·         Hilda Bernstein: "Room 226" (South African literature in English)

·         Nadine Gordimer: “The Ultimate Safari”

·         Nadine Gordimer: “Once upon a Time”

·         Nadine Gordimer: “Comrades”

Poems: Roma Potiki: "Stolen Dreams", “My Heart Goes Swimming” – extract (New Zealand Literature), Derek Walcott: “Ma Kilman” – excerpt (Anglophone Caribbean literature)

Selective secondary sources for students who will write their diploma theses on postcolonial literature topics:

Ashcroft, B. ed. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice on Post- Colonial Literature (New Accents). London: Routledge, 1994, 2002.

Bhabha. H.K. The Location of Culture. London: Routledge, 1994, 1997.

Cunningham, V. Reading After Theory. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.

Feder, L. Naipaul’s Truth: The Making of a Writer. New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2001.

Khai, T. Babu Fictions: Alienation in Contemporary Indian English Novels. Oxford University Press, 2001.

Kušnír, J. Australian Literature in Contexts. Prešov: Prešovská univerzita, 2003.

McLeod, J. Beginning Postcolonialism. Manchester University Press, 2000.

Said, E. Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient. London: Penguin, 1978, 1995.

Said, E. Culture and Imperialism. London: Vintage, 1993, 1994.

Young, R.J.C. Postcolonialism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Czech

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (10.09.2021)

Sekundární literatura:

Ashcroft, B. ed. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice on Post- Colonial Literature (New Accents). London: Routledge, 1994, 2002.

Bhabha. H.K. The Location of Culture. London: Routledge, 1994, 1997.

Cunningham, V. Reading After Theory. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.

Feder, L. Naipaul’s Truth: The Making of a Writer. New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2001.

Khai, T. Babu Fictions: Alienation in Contemporary Indian English Novels. Oxford University Press, 2001.

Kušnír, J. Australian Literature in Contexts. Prešov: Prešovská univerzita, 2003.

McLeod, J. Beginning Postcolonialism. Manchester University Press, 2000.

Said, E. Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient. London: Penguin, 1978, 1995.

Said, E. Culture and Imperialism. London: Vintage, 1993, 1994.

Young, R.J.C. Postcolonialism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Primární literatura:

Romány:

·         Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart 1958 (Nigerian literature)

·         David Malouf: Remembering Babylon 1993(Australian literature) - výňatky

·         Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea 1966 (Anglophone Caribbean literature)

Povídky a úryvky:

·         Catherine Mansfield: "The Wind Blows"(New Zealand Literature)

·          Witi Ihimaera: "The Whale"(New Zealand Literature)

·         Roma Potiki: "Stolen Dreams" – extract (New Zealand Literature)

·         Anita Desai: "Studies in the Park"(Indian Literature in English)

·         Chitra  Banerjee Divakaruni: "Clothes" (Indian Literature in English)

·         Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things – extract (Indian Literature in English) - optional

·         Hari Kunzru : The Impressionist – extract (Indian Literature in English) - optional

·         Bruce Chatwin: The Songlines – extract (Australian literature)

·         Banjo Paterson: "The Man from Snowy River" (Australian literature)

·         Henry Lawson: "The Drover's wife" (Australian literature)

·         Samuel Dickinson Selvon: "The Cricket Match"  (Anglophone Caribbean literature)

·         V.S. Naipaul: "The Night Watchman's Occurrence Book"(Anglophone Caribbean literature)

·         Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: "A Private Experience" (Nigerian literature)

·         Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: "The Headstrong Historian" (Nigerian literature) - optional

·         Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Half of a Yellow Sun – excerpt (Nigerian literature) - optional

·         Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Americanah – excerpt (Nigerian literature) - optional

·         Jekwu Anyaegbuna: "The Swimming Pool" (Nigerian literature) - optional

·         Hilda Bernstein: "Room 226" (South African literature in English)

·         Nadine Gordimer: “The Ultimate Safari”

·         Nadine Gordimer: “Once upon a Time”

·         Nadine Gordimer: “Comrades”

 

Básně: Roma Potiki: "Stolen Dreams", “My Heart Goes Swimming” – extract (New Zealand Literature), Derek Walcott: “Ma Kilman” – excerpt (Anglophone Caribbean literature)

Requirements to the exam

English

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (10.09.2021)

1) Preparation for and participation in weekly seminars (max. 2 absences)

2) Successful completion of an oral exam, max. 3 sittings 

1^st question (literary-historical): major themes, representatives and distinctive features of a selected literature

2^nd question (didactic): presentation of a teaching activity based on a text/issue of postcolonial literature - the student will prepare a portfolio with activities based on individual literatures presented in the course.

3) Language skills are part of the overall assessment.

Czech

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (10.09.2021)

1) Aktivní účast na seminářích (max. 2 absence).

2) Úspěšné splnění ústní zkoušky - celkově jsou tři pokusy. Zkouška se skládá ze dvou částí: 1) literárně historické a 2) praktické (didaktické), jež je prezentací přípravy didaktické aktivity založené na literárním textu z vybrané postkoloniální literatury. Studenti si dopředu připraví portfolio s jednotlivými aktivitami a vylosovanou aktivitu pak použijí při zkoušce.

3) Součástí hodnocení je i jazyková a formulační úroveň.

 

Syllabus

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (10.09.2021)

Introduction to the course

Postcolonial Literature –Definition, major issues of postcolonial theory, the role of English, postcolonial literatures and ICC

New Zealand Literature

Indian Literature in English

Teaching Practice – reading assignment, no classes

Nigerian Literature

South African Literature in English

Australian Literature

Anglophone Caribbean Literature

Course completion requirements

English

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (10.09.2021)

1) Preparation for and participation in weekly seminars (max. 2 absences)

2) Successful completion of an oral exam, max. 3 sittings 

1^st question (literary-historical): major themes, representatives and distinctive features of a selected literature

2^nd question (didactic): presentation of a teaching activity based on a text/issue of postcolonial literature - the student will prepare a portfolio with activities based on individual literatures presented in the course.

3) Language skills are part of the overall assessment.

Czech

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (10.09.2021)

1) Aktivní účast na seminářích (max. 2 absence).

2) Úspěšné splnění ústní zkoušky - celkově jsou tři pokusy. Zkouška se skládá ze dvou částí: 1) literárně historické a 2) praktické (didaktické), jež je prezentací přípravy didaktické aktivity založené na literárním textu z vybrané postkoloniální literatury. Studenti si dopředu připraví portfolio s jednotlivými aktivitami a vylosovanou aktivitu pak použijí při zkoušce.

3) Součástí hodnocení je i jazyková a formulační úroveň.

 

Learning resources

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (10.09.2021)

The course in Moodle: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=6472