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COURSE: WORLD LITERATURES IN ENGLISH

YEAR OF STUDY: 1
SEMESTER: 2
LECTURER: Mihaela Ogășanu
NUMBER OF HOURS/ WEEK: 1
NUMBER OF CREDITS: 2 ECTS

CONTENT:

LECTURE SEMINAR/PRACTICAL COURSE


1. Reading “the Other” or World Literatures in English
a.New Englishes, Creoles b.” Native
Language”, Strine
2. The Postcolonial Search for Self-Definition
a. Cultural Authenticity b. Hybridity and
Resistance
3. The Postcolonial Writer – A Migrant, A Cultural Traveller or
An “Extra-Territorial”?
a.The Double Vision of the Colonized
4. The Postcolonial Discourse
a. Double or Multiple Identities
b.Converting ‘There’ into ‘Here’:
Postcolonial Settler Writing
5 .The Postcolonial Women’s Writing
a.Rethinking Gender
b.Empowerment
6.“All about Us and Within”
a.Indigenous Writing b.The Dilemma of
Biculturalism
7.Exploring the Dangers of Difference
a.The “Other” Heritage
b.Do the Marginalized Valorize the Margins?

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

1. Ashcroft, Bill et al.(1989) The Empire Writes Back , London: Routledge.


2. Benson, Eugene ed. (1994) Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English, London: Routledge.
3. Bhabha, Homi K. (1994) The Location of Culture, London: Routledge.
4. Boehmer, Elleke (1995) Colonial and Postcolonial Literature. Migrant Metaphors, Oxford : O.U.P.
5. Frazer, Sir James (1935), The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion, Ware: Wordsworth .
6. James, Louis (1999), Caribbean Literature in English , London: Longman Literature in English Series.
7. Morgovan, Mariana (2003), Context, Text, Subtext: Olive Schreiner and Nadine Gordimer, Oradea:
Editura Universităţii din Oradea.
8. Morgovan, Mariana (2009), An Incursion Upon the South African Novel in English, Oradea: Editura
Universităţii din Oradea
9. Said, Edward W. (2001) Orientalism, Timişoara: Amarcord.
10. Stratton, Florence (1994) Contemporary African Literature and The Politics of Gender, London:
Routledge.
11. Tiffin, Chris and Lawson, Alan (1994) De- Scribing Empire. Post- Colonialism and Textuality, London:
Routledge.
12. Torres- Saillant, Silvio (1998) Caribbean Poetics, Cambridge: C.U.P
13. Wright, Derek, ed.(1997) Contemporary African Fiction, Bayreuth : Bayreuth African Studies 42.
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