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 Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome, Caribbean writer Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John and North African author Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North.
Spring semester. Professor Shandilya.
Section 01
Tu 01:00 PM - 03:45 PM GREA 109
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 | Seven Stories Press | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Things Fall Apart | Yale University Press | Chinua Achebe | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Discourse on Colonialism | Monthly Review Press | Aime Cesaire | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery | Little Brown and Company | Amitav Ghosh | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Harvest Books | Mohsin Hamid | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Crick Crack, Monkey | Waveland Press | Merle Hodge | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Annie John: A Novel | Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1997 | Jamaica Kincaid | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| The God of Small Things | Random House | Arundhati Roy | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Season of Migration to the North | NYRB Classics | Tayeb Salih | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Empire, Colony, Postcolony | Wiley-Blackwell | Robert Young | Amherst Books | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.