Chapter 1

African Literature

Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart

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The impact of Colonialism on Igbo society

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Language, proverbs, and rewriting history

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The tragic hero in an African context

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Ngugi wa Thiong'o: Decolonising the Mind (Excerpts)

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Chapter 2

Caribbean Literature

Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea

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Writing back to the Empire (Jane Eyre)

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Creole identity and displacement

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Madness and colonial oppression

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Derek Walcott: 'A Far Cry from Africa'

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Chapter 3

Latin American Literature

Gabriel García Márquez: Chronicle of a Death Foretold

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Pablo Neruda: Selected Poems

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Magic Realism and its political functions

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Machismo, honor, and violence

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Dictatorship and memory in literature

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Chapter 4

Diaspora and Migration Literature

V.S. Naipaul: A House for Mr Biswas

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Diasporic alienation and the search for roots

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Cultural hybridity and 'third space' (Bhabha)

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The experience of indentured labor

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Identity formation in immigrant communities

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Chapter 5

Postcolonial Theory Fundamentals

Edward Said: Orientalism (Introduction)

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Gayatri Spivak: 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' (Summary)

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Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth (Excerpts)

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Hegemony, discourse, and representation

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Nationalism and the politics of language

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