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

This course will introduce students to postcolonial literature by focusing on the depiction of the colonial encounter in texts written by authors from formerly colonized regions of the world.

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:

Coetzee, J. M. Waiting for the Barbarians (Penguin pb)
Duff, Alan. Once Were Warriors (Vintage pb)
Keneally, Thomas. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (Angus & Robertson pb)
Salih, Tayeb. Season of Migration to the North (Heinemann pb)
Wiebe, Rudy. The Temptations of Big Bear (McClelland & Stewart pb)
Johnson, Colin (Mudrooroo). Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World (Hyland House pb) [Copies available at the departmental Office]

Highly Recommended Texts:

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)
Loomba, Ania. Colonialism/Postcolonialism ( Routledge pb)
Memmi, Albert. The Colonizer and the Colonized (Beacon pb)