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Regional Literatures
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General Concepts
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Regional Literatures
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Regional LiteraturesIndian
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
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BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (1986)
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| Music
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"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
| Popular Culture: | |
| Bob Marley and Jamaica | |
| Sugar Cane Alley(Martinique) | |
| The Carnival by Wyclef Jean (Haiti) | |
| The Fugees (Haiti) | |
| The Mighty Sparrow | "Dan in the Man in the Van" the song |
| Literature of the Caribbeans and the Caribbean Diaspora | |
| Caribbean Poetry | examples of dub poetry: "dis poem"; "Black and White"; etc. |
| Derek
Walcott
(Jamaica-U.S.) |
(by Pin-chia Feng) |
| Michelle
Cliff
(Jamaica-U.S.) |
( by Pin-chia Feng): Abeng |
| Jean
Rhys
(Dominique-U.K.) |
The Wide Sargasso Sea |
| Sam
Selvon
(India-Trinidad-U.K.-Canada) |
"Waiting for Aunty to Cough" |
| The Lonely Londoners | |
| N. Bissoondath
(India-Trinidad-Canada) |
"Digging Up the Mountains" & "Insecurity" |
| Jamaica
Kincaid
(Antiguua-U.S.) |
Annie John |
| Dionne
Brand
(Trinidad-Canada) |
Sans Souci |
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 2002Related Courses with online resources:
Literature and Film in Postcolonial Africa, Course Description,
POSTCOLONIAL CULTURAL STUDIES
International Literature.Student works.
Postcolinial Cinema
Relevant
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