Předmět Úvod do postkoloniálních literatur (AJ18101)

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Cíl

Postcolonial theory, which developed in the 1980s, is today one of the most productive analytical tools for the study of culture. Rather than being an abstract philosophy, it is a dynamic discourse that emerges from concrete re-readings of the postcolonial culture and especially literature. Through a close reading of literary texts, the course will study postcolonial discourse in literature as a response to Eurocentrism (and any totalization of power, knowledge and meaning) and as a way of redefining the postcolonial self and the world. The reading selection covers some of the most representative English-language postcolonial authors from Africa, the Caribbean and Britain, focusing on short fiction. Literary texts will be used as the basis for the formulation of key terms and positions of postcolonial theory and as a starting point for the discussion of postcoloniality. The primary texts will be complemented by secondary readings. Students will be expected to read the assigned texts, contribute to seminar discussions, write four two-page response papers and a final essay, incorporating key theoretical concepts and critical analyses into their work. At the end of the course, students should be able to identify, analyse and understand the key philosophical, historical, political and aesthetic issues of postcolonial literature and apply this knowledge to the analysis of a variety of literary texts.

Osnova

Week 2 Introduction: colonialism, anti-colonialism, post-colonialism (Oct. 2)John Ruskin, Conclusion to the Inaugural Lecture (1870)Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden” (1899)Mrs. Ernest Ames, An ABC for Baby Patriots (1898)Rider Haggard, King Solomon’s Mines (1885)Week 4 Reading anti-colonial discourses (Oct. 16)Doris Lessing, “The Old Chief Mshlanga” (1951)Peter Abrahams, Tell Freedom (1954), pp. 26-35.Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1963), pp. 1-8.First response paper dueWeek 6 Theorizing race and the self (Oct. 30)Frantz Fanon, “The Fact of Blackness”, from Black Skin, White Masks (1952)Anthony Trollope, Aboriginals (1873) - excerptDambudzo Marechera, “Black Skin What Mask” (1978)Justin Edwards, Postcolonial Literature (Palgrave, 2008), Chapter 2 – “Difference”Second response paper dueWeek 8 Re-writing cultural identity (Nov. 13)Camara Laye, The Dark Child (1954) – excerptChinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (1958) – excerptChinua Achebe, “The Novelist as a Teacher” (1965)C.L. Innes, The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English (2007) –Chapter 3: “Alternative Histories and Writing Back”Third response paper dueWeek 10 Re-writing whiteness, re-writing blackness (Nov. 27)Daniel Bristow-Bovey, “The First Time I Said Fuck” (2008)Alexandra Fuller, “Fancy Dress” (2003)Sello Duiker, Thirteen Cents (2000) – pp. 1-10.Justin Edwards, Postcolonial Literature (Palgrave, 2008), Chapter 13 – “Hybridity”Fourth response paper dueWeek 12 Re-writing the world: postcolonialism and globalization (Dec. 11)Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place (1988)E.C. Osondu, “Waiting” (2009)Parselelo Kantai, “You Wreck Her” (2009)Justin Edwards, Postcolonial Literature (Palgrave, 2008), Chapter 15 – “Globalization”Course evaluation and conclusion

Literatura

McLeod, John. Beginning Postcolonialism. Manchester University Press, 2000.Ashcroft, Bill et. al., The Empire Writes Back. Routledge, 1989, 2002.Robert Young, Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2003.Ashcroft, Bill et al. Postcolonial Studies: The Key Concepts. London: Routledge, 2000.

Požadavky

AJ09999 Postupová zkouška || AJ01002 Anglický jazyk II

Garant

Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.

Vyučující

Dr. Dobrota Pucherová, Dr. phil.