| Unit name | Postcolonial Imaginings |
|---|---|
| Unit code | ENGL39025 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | H/6 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
| Unit director | Professor. Punter |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | Department of English |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
To introduce students to something of the range and depth of postcolonial writing in the last fifty years. Relevant materials will include fiction and some poetry, and there will also be opportunities to discover something about the current preoccupations of postcolonial criticism and theory. At all points we shall be concerned with the central questions, What is the postcolonial? How useful a term is it when approaching specific texts? What are these texts saying about the historical and social conditions under which they were produced? And what makes many of these texts such compelling reading?
Aims:
To read and critically assess a selection of postcolonial writing, and to become familiar with critical and theoretical approaches to the postcolonial.
A greater and more discriminating knowledge and understanding of postcolonial writing.
1 x 2 hour seminar per week, plus 1-to-1 discussion in consultation hours where desired.
