VIMAL ENGLISH GUIDE POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE-II

This is a guidebook on MA English Semester IV, Paper-XVI(optional), Postcolonial Literature-II. The book is recommended for the students pursuing MA English Semester IV in Panjab University, Chandigarh. The famous author V.K. Gupta wrote this book. The guidebook has been published under the eyeful publication of the reputed publisher- Vimal Prakashan Mandir. The guidebook covers the entire syllabus of the course. The first Unit discusses Hybridity and Diaspora consisting of texts on Robert J. C. Young and Jean Rhys. Unit II covers Gender, Subalternity, and Marginality whereby Sharmila Rege and Bama are studied. Unit II speaks on Race and Counterculture- Paul Gilroy and Toni Morrison. In Unit IV, Eduardo Galeano and Margaret Atwood are studied under Globalization. The final Unit covers Post 9/11 Writing and Samuel O. Huntington and Mohsin Hamid are studied.

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                                      CONTENTS 

  UNIT I: Hybridity and Diaspora 

  1. Robert J.C.Young         * Hybridity and Diaspora 

  2. Jean Rhys                    * Wide Sargasso Sea 

  UNIT II: Gender, Subalternity and Marginality 

  1. Sharmila Rege               * The Significance of Calif Testimonios 

  2. Bama                              * Karukku 

  UNIT III: Race and Counterculture 

  1. Paul Gilroy                      * The Black Atlantic as a 

                                                Counterculture of Modernity 

  2. Toni Morrison                   * Beloved  
  

  UNIT IV: Globalization 

  1. Eduardo Galeano             * Open Veins of Latin America: 

                                                  five Centuries of the Pillage of 

                                                  a Continent 

  2. Margaret Atwood               * Surfacing 

  UNIT V: Post 9/11 Writing 

  1. Samuel P. Huntington        * The Clash of Civilizations 

  2. Mohsin Hamid                    * The Reluctant Fundamentalist