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Postcolonial Literature

Prof. Sayan Chattopadhyay · IIT Kanpur

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Lectures

Week 1

  1. Lecture 01 - Introduction: What is Postcolonialism? Video
  2. Lecture 02 - Commonwealth Literature Video
  3. Lecture 03 - Colonial Discourse Analysis: Michel Foucault Video
  4. Lecture 04 - Colonial Discourse Analysis: Edward Said Video
  5. Lecture 05 - Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness Video

Week 2

  1. Lecture 06 - Colonialism: The African Perspective Video
  2. Lecture 07 - Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (I) Video
  3. Lecture 08 - Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (II) Video
  4. Lecture 09 - Decolonisation and the Discourse of Nationalism Video
  5. Lecture 10 - Sonnets of Henry Derozio Video

Week 3

  1. Lecture 11 - Raja Rao's Kanthapura (I) Video
  2. Lecture 12 - Raja Rao's Kanthapura (II) Video
  3. Lecture 13 - Critics of Nationalism: Rabindranath Tagore and Frantz Fanon Video
  4. Lecture 14 - Homi Bhabha and the concept of Cultural Hybridity Video
  5. Lecture 15 - Caribbean Poetry: Derek Walcott Video

Week 4

  1. Lecture 16 - Diasporic Literature: Selections from Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies Video
  2. Lecture 17 - Gayatri C. Spivak: Answering the question “Can the Subaltern Speak?” Video
  3. Lecture 18 - Mahasweta Devi's Pterodactyl (I) Video
  4. Lecture 19 - Mahasweta Devi's Pterodactyl (II) Video
  5. Lecture 20 - Conclusion: Postcolonial Futures Video

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Kanpur
Department
Humanities and Social Sciences
Teacher
Prof. Sayan Chattopadhyay
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics
Source
NPTEL
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