Postcolonial Literature in English a.y. 2024-25

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  Lecturers: Flaminia Nicora; Stefano Rozzoni

  Course code: 13239
  

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    Dear Students,

    The 9 CFU course "POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE IN ENGLISH" (code 13281) consists of two parts, taught by Prof. Flaminia Nicora (3 CFU) and Dr. Stefano Rozzoni (6 CFU), respectively.

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    Dr. Rozzoni’s section will begin on November 12. Classes will be held on:

    Tuesdays: 12:00 - 3:00 pm

    Thursdays: 4:00 - 7:00 pm

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    During the first session, I will provide you with all the necessary information regarding the organization of the course, materials, exam, etc.

    Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me: stefano.rozzoni@unibg.it

    
    

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    Module B (6 CF) - Lecturer: Stefano Rozzoni

    (Dis-)Orientation in Contemporary Anglophone Literature through Postcolonial Studies

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  • Выбрать элемент Reading assignment:From Paul Poplawski, Engli...

    Reading assignment:

    From Paul Poplawski, English Literature in Context, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2017)

     - 645-655 (Postcolonial Literature in English, Historical overview)
    

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  • Выбрать элемент Reading assignment:Primary Texts- Gayatri Cha...

    Reading assignment:

    Primary Texts

    - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's "Can the Subaltern Speak?" (1988) - online (especially pp. 76-86)

    
    

    Secondary Texts

    From Paul Poplawski, English Literature in Context, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2017)

    - pp. 479 - 496 (The Twentieth Century, 1901-1939; Historical context)

    - pp. 512-519 (The position of Women)

    
    

    
    

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    Reading Assignment:

    Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own" (1929) - online (especially pp. 4-21; 34-48;) 

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  • Выбрать элемент Optional readings (connected to the talk of our gu...

    Optional readings (connected to the talk of our guest speaker: Dr. Maria Jordet)

  • Выбрать элемент Jordet, M., Gullestad, S. E., & Haavind, H. (2022). When singing strengthens the capacity to aspire: girls’ reflexivity in rural Bangladesh. Journal of Critical Realism, 22(1), 7–26.

    

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  Lesson #4 - November 21

  • Выбрать элемент Assigned reading (listening):Kabe Wilson, Intervie...

    Assigned reading (listening):

    Kabe Wilson, Interview on Of One Woman Or So by Olivia N'Gowfri

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    Optional extra readings:

    Kalen M. A. Churcher, STOKELY CARMICHAEL, "BLACK POWER", Voices of Democracy 4 (2009): 132‐148 (Accessible: https://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/churcher-carmichael.pdf)

    Wilson, K., Friedman, S. S., Marie, C., Latham, M., & Rigeade, A.-L. (2022). "Of Words, Worlds and Woolf: Recycling A Room of One’s Own into Of One Woman or So. In Recycling Virginia Woolf" in Contemporary Art and Literature (1st ed., pp. 55–85). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003144649-3
    

    Jones, Danell, The Girl Prince: Virginia Woolf, Race and the Dreadnought Hoax, Hurst, 2023.

    
    

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  • Выбрать элемент Assigned reading:- Homi Bhabha, K. The Location of...

    Assigned reading:

    - Homi Bhabha, K. The Location of Culture, London: Routledge, 1994, pp. 1-18 (Introduction). You can find a free access copy HERE. (Optional additional reading: Chapter 3, pp. 66-84)

    Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis, 2021 (full text)

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  • Выбрать элемент Assigned reading:- Amitav Ghosh, The Nut...

    Assigned reading:

    - Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis, 2021 (full text)

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  • Выбрать элемент Recording: A conversation with Dr. Sayan Dey (Byron College, Oman). Topic: decoloniality

    

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  Lesson #7 - December 3

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    Reading assignment:

    - Make sure that you have read A. Ghosh's The Nutmeg's Curse (full text)

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    Открыто с: пятница, 29 ноября 2024, 00:00

    Срок сдачи: вторник, 3 декабря 2024, 11:59
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  Lesson #8 - December 5 (16:00 - 18:00)

  • Выбрать элемент Assigned reading:- Frantz Fanon, The Wre...

    Assigned reading:

    - Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press, 1968 [1961] (Accessible HERE): Selected passages: pp. 35-41. 
    

    - Paul Poplawski, 655-665 (The Scramble for Africa)

    Recommended reading (NOT mandatory for the exam): 

    - Preface by Jean-Paul Sartre (Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth).

    - The Uncanny by Sigmund Freud (1919) (Accessible HERE)
    

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    Recommended (not mandatory)
    

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  • Выбрать элемент Assigned reading:- Frantz Fanon, The Wre...

    Assigned reading:
    
    - Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press, 1968 [1961] (Accessible HERE): Selected passages: "Colonial War and Mental Disorder" + "Series A": pp. 249-269. 
    
    - Chris Cleave, The Other Hand, London: Sceptre, 2008 (FULL TEXT)
    
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  • Выбрать элемент Assigned reading:Chris Cleave, The Other Hand...

    Assigned reading:
    
    Chris Cleave, The Other Hand, London: Sceptre, 2008 (Selected chapters)
    

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  Lesson #11 - December 17

  From: 12:00 to 1:30 with Stefano Rozzoni (Chris Cleave's "The Other Hand")

  From: 1:30 to 3:00 with Flaminia Nicora and Stefano Rozzoni (Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart")

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    Assigned reading:
    
    Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
    

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  Lesson #12 - December 19

  From: 4:00 to 6:00 with Flaminia Nicora and Stefano Rozzoni (Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart")
  

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