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This lecture course will provide students with a structured introduction to postcolonial literatures in English, i.e. the literature that has emerged in the context of formerly colonised societies and regions across the Anglophone world, from the colonial past to the postcolonial present. While it is impossible to discuss the entire scope of texts, topics, authors and genres from the vast territories that have been affected by British colonial rule, the lecture will include a wide range of texts from e.g. Australia, the Caribbean, Ireland, Nigeria, South Asia and the UK. The final section will focus on multicultural British literature, and on narratives of migration and flight in the contemporary post-9/11 world. A selection of literary as well as critical texts by renowned authors past and present, including Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Behrouz Boochani, Peter Carey, Olaudah Equiano, Jamaica Kincaid, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Jean Rhys, Salman Rushdie and Malala Yousafzai, will be made available via a Moodle course. |
