Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Studies
- Code
- BBI-ANG17-312E.24
- Title
- Elective seminar in English literature - Postcolonial authors and the Booker Prize
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- ECTS
- 5
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- The main aim of the course is to acquaint students with authors hailing from countries of the Commonwealth of Nations, whose novels have been awarded the Booker Prize, the most prestigious literary award of the English-speaking world. During the course, we are going to discuss the history of the Booker Prize as well as the changing reception of postcolonial authors. Four works will be discussed in more detail: New Zealander Keri Hulme’s The Bone People (1984), Indian author Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things (1997), South African J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace (1999) and British-Nigerian author Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other (2019).
- Course content
- Selected literary works and articles, videos and interviews or other non-fiction publication that may assist students in contextualizing and understanding the assigned novels.
- Assessment method
- The end mark is given based on in-class activity, a presentation, a home paper of cca. 5-6 pages and short (120-word) response papers about the compulsory readings.
- Bibliography
- Coetzee, J. M. (1999). Disgrace. Evaristo, Bernardine (2019). Girl, Woman, Other. Hulme, Keri (1984). The Bone People. Roy, Arundhati (1997). The God of Small Things.