ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: English and German Philology
Areas: English Philology
Center Faculty of Philology
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
This subject has as its general goal the study and critical analysis of English-language literature produced in the postcolonial context, as well as the abilities to speak and write on the texts under analysis.
1. Introduction to basic concepts of postcolonial theory (2 weeks)
• Post-colonialism, Colonialism, Patronage, Resistance, Nativism
• Fanonism, Orientalism, Colonial body, Colonial desire
• Hegemony, Mimicry, Hybridity
2. Postcolonial poetry (3 weeks)
• Ireland. The Psychopathology of Colonization (a selection of poems)
3. Postcolonial novel and essay (3 weeks)
• Beyond the Pale in Northern Ireland: Anna Burns' Milkman
• Colourism in the Caribbean: Michelle Cliff, If I Could Write This in Fire
4. Postcolonial short fiction (3 weeks)
• Nigeria. Writing Black: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck
5. Postcolonial drama (2 weeks)
• The Indian Subcontinent. Manjula Padmanabhan, Lights Out.
Remaining weeks: oral presentations.
PRIMARY WORKS: The professor will facilitate a selection of poems for the poetry section, as well as the essay by Michelle Cliff. The rest of the texts are available at the BUSC.
BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Ashcroft, Bill and Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. Key concepts in post-colonial studies. London: Routledge, 1999.
Quayson, Ato, ed. The Cambridge history of postcolonial literature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011.
COMPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Allen-Randolph, Jody (ed.). Eavan Boland: a sourcebook : poetry, prose, interviews, reviews and criticism. Manchester: Carcanet, 2007.
Bringas López, Ana María. “The Black Woman's Burden: postcolonial gender in Caribbean women’s writing”. BABEL A.F.I.A.L. 12 (2003): 201-218.
Caramés Lage, José Luis et al. (eds). Literatura post-colonial en inglés: India, Africa y Caribe. Teoría y práctica. Oviedo: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Oviedo, 1997.
Carroll, Clare & Patricia King (eds.). Ireland and Postcolonial Theory. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003.
Döring, Tobias. Caribbean-English Passages: intertexuality in a postcolonial tradition. London, New York: Routledge, 2002.
Lewis, Reina & Sara Mills (eds.). Feminist Postcolonial Theory: A Reader. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003.
Nayar, Pramod K. Colonial voices: the discourses of empire. Chichester/ Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
Palacios, Manuela. “Northern Ireland: The Poetry In Between”. Postcolonial and Gender Perspectives in Irish Studies. Ed. Marisol Morales Ladrón. A Coruña: Netbiblo, 2007, pp. 45-64.
Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth. Jamaica Kincaid: a critical companion. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999.
Puri, Shalini. The Caribbean Postcolonial: social equality, post-nationalism, and cultural hybridity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Thieme, John. Postcolonial Con-Texts: writing back to the canon. London: Continuum, 2001.
CB1, CB2, CB3, CB4, CB5, CG3, CG4, CG5, CG6, CG7, CG8, CG9, CE5, CE6, CE7, CE8, CE9, CE10 of the Approved Report.
Reading, comprehension and analysis of literary texts.
Ability to write a critical essays.
Ability to give oral presentations on literary issues.
Relating literary texts to the society in which they were produced.
Command of the tools and concepts needed for literary analysis.
-Lectures: 2 hours of class per week in which the professor introduces the historical, social and cultural context of the literary texts to be analysed. Introduction to the writers' lives and works.
-Seminars: 1 hour of class per week in which the students analyse of a choice of literary excerpts.
-Tutorial hours: Discussion of the students' doubts in their assignments.
-One final oral presentation by the students.
-Use of audiovisual materials and the internet for more information on the writers and their work.
-Use of the USC Virtual Campus for announcements and reading materials.
First opportunity:
-Final exam: 75% of the final mark.
-Tasks: One final oral presentation, 25% of the final mark.
IMPORTANT; Students must pass their exam in order to have their Tasks mark added to their exam mark.
Second opportunity (June):
The mark obtained in the oral presentation during the course will be maintained for the second opportunity. Students who have not participated in this activity during the course will lose the corresponding 25% of the final mark.
Students who have been exempted from attendance will be assessed on the basis of one final exam which will count 100% of the final mark.
Students who can prove they have a timetable incompatibility or who are repeating the course can choose, before October 31, whether they want to be assessed on the basis of one final exam which will count 100% of their final mark or whether they prefer the standard assessment of 75% (final exam) and 25% (final oral presentation). Students repeating the course have the possibility of keeping the Tasks mark from the previous year.
The literary texts must be read in English and the exams and assignments must be written also in English. Correct language use will be taken into account when marking these activities.
For cases of fraudulent conduct in exercises or exams, the USC "Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións" will apply to USC students.
-Students must read the obligatory literary texts in advance before the seminars.
-Students are expected to read a choice of the recommended bibliography (non-obligatory readings) as they prepare the assignments and the final exam.
-Total number of study hours: 99.
-Very active participation in class is highly recommended.
-Read the obligatory literary texts before the corresponding seminars.
-Make a choice of the recommended bibliography in order to broaden your knowledge about the literary period.
-Do both individual and group work.
-Clarify doubts in class and during tutorial hours.
-Complete your understanding of the literary period and its writers by watching films, checking information on the internet, etc.
In accordance with article 9.2.a of the USC Student Statute and article 36 of the Organic Law of the University System, the use of electronic devices (mobile phones, tablets, computers, etc.) is not authorized in the lectures and seminars except when expressly authorized by the professor.
Manuela Palacios Gonzalez
Coordinador/a- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- Phone
- 881811892
- manuela.palacios [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
| Monday | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00-11:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | English | C12 |
| Tuesday | |||
| 09:00-10:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | English | C12 |
| Wednesday | |||
| 10:00-11:00 | Grupo /CLIS_02 (G-O) | English | C06 |
| 11:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLIS_03 (P-Z) | English | C06 |
| 12:00-13:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 (A-F) | English | C06 |
| 01.09.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | C11 |
| 01.09.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_01 (A-F) | C11 |
| 01.09.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_02 (G-O) | C11 |
| 01.09.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_03 (P-Z) | C11 |
| 01.09.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | C12 |
| 01.09.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_01 (A-F) | C12 |
| 01.09.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_02 (G-O) | C12 |
| 01.09.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_03 (P-Z) | C12 |
| 06.09.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | D08 |
| 06.09.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_01 (A-F) | D08 |
| 06.09.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_02 (G-O) | D08 |
| 06.09.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_03 (P-Z) | D08 |