Listed in: English, as ENGL-319 | Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies, as SWAG-331
Krupa Shandilya (Section 01)
(Offered as SWAG 331 and ENGL 319) What is the novel? How do we know when a work of literature qualifies as a novel? In this course we will study the postcolonial novel which explodes the certainties of the European novel. Written in the aftermath of empire, these novels question race, class, gender and empire in their subject matter and narrative form. We will consider fiction from South Asia, the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa. Novels include South African writer J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Caribbean novelist Dionne Brand’s In Another Place, Not Here.
Fall semester. Professor Shandilya.
Section 01
Tu 01:00 PM - 03:30 PM MORG 110
This is preliminary information about books for this course. Please contact your instructor or the Academic Coordinator for the department, before attempting to purchase these books.
| ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Purple Hibiscus | Amherst Books | TBD | ||||
| Things Fall Apart | Anchor 1994 | Chinua Achebe | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Discourse on Colonialism | Monthly Review Press 2001 | Aime Cesaire | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Calcutta Chromosome | Amherst Books | TBD | ||||
| The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Harvest Books 2007 | Mohsin Hamid | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Crick Crack, Monkey | Amherst Books | TBD | ||||
| Annie John | Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1997 | Jamaica Kincaid | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| God of Small Things | Random House 2008 | Arundhati Roy | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Season of Migration to the North | Random 2009 | Salih | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Empire, Colony, Postcolony | John Wiley and Sons 2015 | Robert J. C. Young | Amherst Books | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.