Background
Fiction/Poetry/Drama/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
Short Stories by M. G. Vassanji, Hanif Kureishi, Shani Mootoo, Salman Rushdie, Romesh Goonasekare, Rohinton Mistry/Sam Selvon, Ahmed Ali, Subramany.
Poems by David Dabydeen, Derek Walcott, Benjamin Zephaniah, A. K. Ramanujan, Meena Alexander, Rienzi Crusz, Anne Ranasinghe, Zulfikar Ghose, Alamgir Hashmi, Kaisar Haque, Agha Shahid Ali, Sujata Bhatt, Nissim Ezekiel, Grace Nichols, Earl Lovelace, Michael Gilkes, Cyril and David Dabydeen.
Plays by Meena Syal, Rana Bose, Uma Parameswaran, Hanif Kureishi, Sharon Pollock, _______.
Film Representations such as Bhaji on the Beach, Bend It like Beckham, My Beautiful Launderette or Sammy and Rosie Get Laid or London Kills Me, Brick Lane or Mississippi Masala.
- Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities.
- Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization.
- Appiah, Kwame Anthony and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., (eds.). The Dictionary of Global Culture.
- Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies.
- Bhaba, Homi. 'DissemiNation: Time, Narrative and the Margins of the Modern Nation' in The Location of Culture.
- Bissoondath, Neil. The Myth of Multiculturalism
- Cohen, Robin. Global Diasporas: An Introduction.
- Donnell, Alison and Sarah Lawson Welsh (eds). The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature.
- Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks.
- Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic.
- JanMohamed, Abdul (ed). The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse.
- Laming, George. The Pleasures of Exile.
- Paranjape, Makarand (ed). In Diaspora.
- Rushdie, Salman. Imaginary Homelands.
Excerpts from other texts will be provided to students as the course progresses.
Fiction/Poetry/Drama/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
Texts for the current session will be selected from the following list. Students are encouraged to read as widely as possible.
Novels
- Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
- Yasmin Gooneratne, A Change of Skies
- Chandaril Lokuge, If the Moon Smiled
- Adib Khan, A Solitude of Illusions or Seasonal Adjustments
- Romesh Goonesekare, Reef
- Shyam Selvadurai, Funny Boy
- Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost or In the Skin of a Lion
- V. S. Naipaul, A Way in the World
- Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners or A Brighter Sun
- David Dabydeen, Disappearance or The Intended or The Counting House
- Caryl Phillips, A State of Independence or Crossing the River
- George Laming, The Emigrants
- M. G. Vassanji, _______
- Shani Mootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night
Short Stories by M. G. Vassanji, Hanif Kureishi, Shani Mootoo, Salman Rushdie, Romesh Goonasekare, Rohinton Mistry/Sam Selvon, Ahmed Ali, Subramany.
Poems by David Dabydeen, Derek Walcott, Benjamin Zephaniah, A. K. Ramanujan, Meena Alexander, Rienzi Crusz, Anne Ranasinghe, Zulfikar Ghose, Alamgir Hashmi, Kaisar Haque, Agha Shahid Ali, Sujata Bhatt, Nissim Ezekiel, Grace Nichols, Earl Lovelace, Michael Gilkes, Cyril and David Dabydeen.
Plays by Meena Syal, Rana Bose, Uma Parameswaran, Hanif Kureishi, Sharon Pollock, _______.
Film Representations such as Bhaji on the Beach, Bend It like Beckham, My Beautiful Launderette or Sammy and Rosie Get Laid or London Kills Me, Brick Lane or Mississippi Masala.
