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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
(Please refer to the following list for the exam requirements of the course Postcolonial Literature in English, MODULE B only. For information regarding MODULE A, please follow the guidelines provided by Prof. Nicora. The exam will include material from BOTH Module A - (Nicora) and Module B (Rozzoni)
Primary Texts
- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (1929) (selected passages as indicated below)
- Kabe Wilson, Of One Woman or So, by Olivia N’Gowfri (2009-2014) (selected passages as indicated below)
- Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg’s Curse (2021) (Full text)
- Vanessa Kisuule, Hollow (2020) (selected passages as indicated below)
- Chris Cleave, The Other Hand (2016) (Full text)
Secondary Texts:
- Spivak, G. C. Can the Subaltern Speak?, 1988 (selected passages as indicated below)
- Homi Bhabha, K. The Location of Culture, London: Routledge 1994 (selected chapters as indicated below)
- Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press, 1968 [1961] (selected passages)
- Paul Poplawski, English Literature in Context, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017 (selected chapters as indicated below)
Recommended Reading (not mandatory, but highly recommended, especially for non-attending students):
- Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin; Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts (2nd Edition), Taylor & Francis, 2013, especially in relation to the concepts: Binarism; Feminism and Post-colonialism; Orientalism; Other; Othering; Postcolonial-reading; Subaltern; Subject/Subjectivity; Hybridity; Liminality; Ecological imperialism; Postcolonialism; Decolonization.
- Vera Nünning, Ansgar Nünning; An Introduction to the Study of English and American Literature, Klett 2014, especially in relation to the concepts: period; author vs. speaker; reader vs. addressee