Postcolonial Literature
Syllabi and Reference Materials

Course Syllabus
      

Course Assignments
    

Lecture Notes

       

Reference Materials on Postcolonial Literature
       Glossary of Terms for South Asian Literature
         South Dakota Humanities Council World Reading Series Study Guides:
          African Literature:
            Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
              Nadine Gordimer's Crimes of Conscience
        Middle Eastern Literature:
            Naguib Mahfouz's Fountain and Tomb
              Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof's In the Name of Sorrow and Hope
        South Asian Literature:
              Kamal Markandaya's Nectar in a Sieve
              Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things

Materials from Earlier Semesters

Achebe - Things Fall Apart
Defining Postcolonial Studies
Head - "The Collector of Treasures"
History of the British Empire
Kipling - "The Man Who Would Be King"
Kipling - "The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes"
Mahfouz - Children of the Alley

The Psychology of Empire
Soyinka - Death and the King's Horseman
Walcott - Dream on Monkey Mountain

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