NPTEL : NOC:Postcolonial Literature (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Co-ordinators : Prof. Sayan Chattopadhyay


Lecture 1 - Introduction: What is Postcolonialism?

Lecture 2 - Commonwealth Literature

Lecture 3 - Colonial Discourse Analysis: Michel Foucault

Lecture 4 - Colonial Discourse Analysis: Edward Said

Lecture 5 - Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

Lecture 6 - Colonialism: The African Perspective

Lecture 7 - Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart - I

Lecture 8 - Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart - II

Lecture 9 - Decolonisation and the Discourse of Nationalism

Lecture 10 - Sonnets of Henry Derozio

Lecture 11 - Raja Rao's Kanthapura - I

Lecture 12 - Raja Rao's Kanthapura - II

Lecture 13 - Critics of Nationalism: Rabindranath Tagore and Frantz Fanon

Lecture 14 - Homi Bhabha and the concept of Cultural Hybridity

Lecture 15 - Caribbean Poetry: Derek Walcott

Lecture 16 - Diasporic Literature: Selections from Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies

Lecture 17 - Gayatri C. Spivak: Answering the question “Can the Subaltern Speak?”

Lecture 18 - Mahasweta Devi's Pterodactyl - I

Lecture 19 - Mahasweta Devi's Pterodactyl - II

Lecture 20 - Conclusion: Postcolonial Futures