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ENGL 433: Postcolonial Literatures (Rev. 2) Report a Broken Link

Writing Resource

Guptill, Amy. Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence. Open SUNY Textbooks, 2016.

Unit 1: What Is Postcolonial Literature? Key Concepts and Terms

Fisher, Max. “40 More Maps that Explain the World.” The Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2014.
“Short History of Colonization since 1492 in One GIF.” Brillant Maps, 3 Mar. 2023.
The Decolonial Atlas
Walcott, Derek. “The Muse of History.” What the Twilight Says: Essays, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998, pp. 36–64.
Kipling, Rudyard. “The White Man’s Burden.” The Kipling Society, 1899. 
Rushdie, Salman. Excerpt from “The Perforated Sheet.” Midnight’s Children, Penguin Random House, 1981. 

Unit 2: Colonial Discourse and Anticolonial Resistance and Literature

Macaulay, Thomas Babington. “Minute on Education.” Selections from Educational Records, Part I (1781–1839), edited by H. Sharp. Calcutta: Superintendent, Government Printing, 1920. Reprint. Delhi: National Archives of India, 1965, pp. 107–17.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. “The Language of African Literature.” Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader, edited by Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman, Columbia UP, 1994, pp. 435–55.
Wainaina, Binyavanga. “How to Write about Africa.” Granta: The Magazine of New Writing, vol. 92, Winter, 2005.
Soyinka, Wole. “Abiku.” Mr. Africa Poetry Lounge.
Osundare, Niyi. “Harvestcall.″ The Arnold Anthology of Post-Colonial Literatures in English, edited by John Thieme, Arnold, 1996, pp. 50–52.
Ojaide, Tanure. “Compatriots.” Hurs & Ryder.
Biko, Stephen Bantu. “Black Consciousness and the Quest for True Humanity.”
Mphahlele, Es’kia. “The Coffee Cart Girl.” Concert of Voices: An Anthology of World Writing in English, edited by Victor Ramraj, 2nd ed., Broadview, 2009. pp. 341–46.
Head, Bessie. “The Collector of Treasures.” Concert of Voices: An Anthology of World Writing in English, edited by Victor Ramraj, 2nd ed., Broadview, 2009, pp. 158–72.

Unit 3: Indigeneity and Decolonization

Justice, Daniel Heath. “Why Indigenous Literatures Matter.” DanielHeathJustice, 19 Dec. 2016. 
Joe, Rita. “I Lost My Talk.” Poetry in Voice.
Noonuccal, Oodgeroo. “Gooboora, the Silent Pool” and “The Past.” Concert of Voices: An Anthology of World Writing in English, edited by Victor Ramraj, 2nd ed., Broadview, 2009, pp. 390–91. 
Ihimaera, Witi. “The Whale.” The Arnold Anthology of Post-Colonial Literatures in English, edited by John Thieme, Arnold, 1996, pp. 620–27.
Davis, Jack. “White Fantasy—Black Fact.” Concert of Voices: An Anthology of World Writing in English, edited by Victor Ramraj, 2nd ed., Broadview, 2009, pp. 118–22.
Belcourt, Billy-Ray. “The Cree Word for a Body Like Mine is Weesageechak.” Billy-Ray Belcourt, 2 Jul. 2016.
Belcourt, Billy-Ray. "There Is a Dirt Road in Me." This Wound Is a World, U of Minnesota P, 2017, p. 7.
Belcourt, Billy-Ray. “sacred.” Billy-Ray Belcourt, 26 Feb. 2016.
Belcourt, Billy-Ray. “Ode to Northern Alberta.” This Magazine, 27 Oct. 2017.

Unit 4: Race, Class, Feminism, and the Nation

Djebar, Assia. “Les Impatients.” Unwinding Threads: Writing by Women in Africa, edited by Charlotte Bruner, Heinemann, 1994, pp. 195–200.
Djebar, Assia. “Forbidden Gaze, Severed Sound.” Sabzian, 31 Mar. 2021.
Devi, Mahasweta. “Shishu.” Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the Present, Vol. II: The Twentieth Century, edited by Susie Tharu and K. Lalita, Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. 234–51.
Various Poems by Meena Kandasamy

Please read the following poems:

• “Their Daughters,” page 4

• “Mohandas Karamchand,” page 14

• “Mulligatawny Dreams,” page 3

• “My Lover Speaks of Rape,” page 11
Kandasamy, Meena. “#THISPOEMWILLPROVOKEYOU.” Feminist Dissent, no. 2, 2017, pp. 115–17.

Unit 5: Diaspora and Transnationalism—Rethinking Postcolonialism

Diaz, Natalie. “Postcolonial Love Poem.”
Hall, Stuart. “Cultural Identity and Diaspora.” Identity: Community, Culture, Difference, edited by Jonathan Rutherford, Lawrence & Wishart, 1990, pp. 222–37.

Unit 6: Challenging Neocolonialism—“Planetarity,” Indigeneity, and Imagining the Future

Saro-Wiwa, Ken. Silence Would Be Treason: Last Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa, edited by Íde Corley, Helen Fallon, and Laurence Cox, 2nd ed., Daraja Press, 2018.

Please read the following selections:

• “Foreword to the First Edition” by Nnimmo Bassey

• “Chronology of Key Events in Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Life”

• “Ogoni! Ogoni!,” “MOSOP,” and “The Call” (Poems)