Lecturer in charge: Dr Norval Edwards [Room 20 - Old Arts Block]

This course will explore the literary depiction of nationalism and the nation in selected texts from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Canada , Australia , New Zealand , and the South Pacific. The regional focus will vary from year to year.

Prerequisite: LITS 2301 (E23A) or LITS 2304 (E23D)

Instruction: 2 lectures, 1 tutorial per week

Evaluation: 1 essay (1,500 words) 20%
1 library assignment/annotated bibliography
(2,000 words) 20%
Research paper (3,500 words) 60%

Prescribed Texts:

Adiga, Aravind. The White Tiger (Free Press pb)
Achebe, Chinua. A Man of the People (Heinemann pb)
Armah, Ayi Kwei . The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (Heinemann pb)
Kincaid , Jamaica . A Small Place (Farrar, Straus and Giroux pb)
Sidhwa, Bapsi. Cracking India (Milkweed pb)
Phillips, Caryl. A State of Independence (Vintage/Faber & Faber pb)

Highly Recommended Texts:

Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism ( Verso pb)
Ashcroft, Bill, et al. The Empire Writes Back (Routledge pb)
Ashcroft, Bill, et al. The Postcolonial Studies Reader (Routledge pb)
Boehmer, Elleke. Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures ( Oxford Univ. Press pb)
Hutchinson, John and Anthony D. Smith, eds. Nationalism (Beacon pb)