BLOCK 5: POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE

SYLLABUS MAIN PAGE

Section 1: DIASPORA LITERATURE

1. Introduction to Diaspora and Diaspora Literature

2. Jean Rhys (1890-1979)

3. Sam Selvon (1923-1994)

4. VS Naipaul (1932-2018)

5. Timothy Mo (1950-)

6. Kazuo Ishiguro (1954-)

7. Hanif Kureishi (1954-)

8. Caryl Phillips (1958-)

Section 2: AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE

1. AD Hope (1907-2000)

2. Patrick White (1912-1990)

3. Judith Wright (1915-2000)

4. David Malouf (1934-)

5. Thomas Keneally (1935-)

6. Peter Carey (1943-)

7. A Few More

Section 3: AFRICAN LITERATURE

1. Alan Paton (1903-1988)

2. Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014)

3. Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)

4. Wole Soyinka (1934-)

5. Bessie Head (1937-1986)

6. Ngugi wa Thiong’o (1938-)

7. JM Coetzee (1940-)

8. Ama Ata Aidoo (1942-2023)

9. Buchi Emecheta (1944-2017)

10. Nuruddin Farah (1945-)

11. Ben Okri (1959-)

12. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977-)

13. A Few More

Section 4: CANADIAN LITERATURE

1. Sinclair Ross (1908-1996)


2. Gabrielle Roy (1909-1983)


3. Margaret Laurence (1926-1987)


4. Alice Munro (1931-)


5. Joy Kogawa (1935-)


6. Margaret Atwood (1939-)


7. Maria Campbell (1940-)


8. Michael Ondaatje (1943-)


9. Thomas King (1943-)


10. Rohinton Mistry (1952-)


11. Lawrence Hill (1957-)


12. Yann Martel (1963-)


13. Shyam Selvadurai (1965-)


Section 5: SOUTH AMERICAN LITERATURE

1. Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) #chilean

2. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) #argentine

3. Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) #chilean

4. Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) #colombian

Section 6: CARIBBEAN LITERATURE

1. George Lamming (1927-2022) #barbadian

2. Derek Walcott (1930-2017) #saintlucia

3. Edward Braithwaite (1930-2020) #barbadian

4. Jamaica Kincaid (1949-) #antiguan

Section 7: OTHER POSTCOLONIAL WRITERS

1. Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) #newzealand

2. A Few More