General Concepts 

   Cultures & Histories 

   Relevant Links

   Syllabi 
 
 

 

  Regional Literatures
  • Indian Subcontinent 
  • South Africa (under construction)
  • the Caribbean Area 
  • Canada 

Indian Subcontinent
 
Indian Poets Tagore, etc.
Narayan
Salman Rushdie(India-Pakistan-U.K.) The Midnight's Children; short stories
Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things
Sara Suleri
(Pakistan-U.S.)
Meatless Days
B. Mukherjee
(India-Canada-U.S.)
"The Lady from Lucknow"
Films  
Mira Nair Salaam Bombay
Mississippi Masala
Srinivas Krishna Masala
Hanif Kureishi
 
MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (1986)
 
Music

 

 

  • "Petition to Ram"  (a variety of muscial cultures)--by Jai Uttal, Indian born in New York

  • "Balinese Fantasy" -- by Zakir Hussain  (an Indian percussionist)
    "Two Lovers" by Ali Akbar Khan ("Two Lovers"  uses Sarod, a 25 metal-stringed intrument carved from a single piece of wood, and is  based on a folk song from the Indian desert province of Rajasthan.)
    The Caribbean Area Canada
     
    Mhargaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale
    N. Bissoondat "Digging Up the Mountains" "Insecurity"
    Dionne Brand: Short Stories
    Austin Clarke Short Stories
    Joy Kogawa Obasan
    M. Laurence "Rain Child"
    Alice Munro "The Found Boat"
    Michael Ondaatje The English Patient, the novel and the film
    D. Cheong "The Concubine's Children": its Photos and Background
    Films:
    Mina Shum Double Happiness
    Clement Virgo Rude
    Atom Egoyan The Adjuster
    Syllabi
    Contemporary Indian Subcontinent, Caribbean and Canadian Literatures:
    (De-)Colonization, National Identity and Migration
    Spring 1998; Spring 1999; Spring 2000; Spring 2001, Fall 2002

    Related Courses with online resources:
     Literature and Film in Postcolonial Africa, Course Description,
    POSTCOLONIAL CULTURAL STUDIES
    International Literature.Student works.
    Postcolinial Cinema

    Comments and Contributions are very welcome.  Please send  them to Kate Liu.

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