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Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (10.09.2021)
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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 |
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Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (10.09.2021)
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Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (10.09.2021)
The novels to be discussed:
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. |
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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, 3 sittings altogether 1st question (literary-historical): major themes, representatives and distinctive features of a selected literature 2nd question (didactic): presentation of a poem, a short story or a novel from the point of view of a postcolonial studies, literary history and EFL - preparation of a 45-minute-long lesson plan based on a text of postcolonial literature - the student will prepare a portfolio with lesson plans for all the literatures presented in the course. 3) Language skills are part of the overall assessment. |
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Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (10.09.2021)
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 |
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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, 3 sittings altogether 1st question (literary-historical): major themes, representatives and distinctive features of a selected literature 2nd question (didactic): presentation of a poem, a short story or a novel from the point of view of a postcolonial studies, literary history and EFL - preparation of a 45-minute-long lesson plan based on a text of postcolonial literature - the student will prepare a portfolio with lesson plans for all the literatures presented in the course. 3) Language skills are part of the overall assessment. |