Iğdır University Lifelong Learning Programme

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course Unit	Year of Study	Semester	Number of ECTS Credits
190301507103	COLONIZATION AND LITERATURE AFTER COLONIZATION	Compulsory	4	7	5

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle

Objectives of the Course

Students are expected to become familiar with Colonialism and Postcolonial literature and criticism be able to analyze literary works with regard to the related theory and criticism.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Zafer ŞAFAK

Learning Outcomes

1	Knows the meaning of Colonial Literature and Postcolonial Literature.
2	Comprehends the similarities and differences between the arguments of colonial and postcolonial theorists.
3	Able to examine the works within the framework of colonial and postcolonial literary theory.
4	Able to classify and compare both the fictional and critical works in colonial and post-colonial literature according to various criteria.
5	Able to evaluate selected literary works according to colonial and postcolonial criteria.

Mode of Delivery

Daytime Class

Prerequisites and co-requisities

In advance of this course, students must take Literary Terms and Movements (2nd class course) and pass it. Students must also take simultaneously the course of Theory of Literature and Criticism I (Literary Theory and Criticism; 4th class course) so that they can understand the content and the scope of the course and be able to situate it in literary education.

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Course Contents

The course covers the prominent works, themes, authors, arguments of Colonial and Postcolonial literature and criticism within their cultural setting.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Introduction: Colonialism and Postcolonialism	-	-
2	Colonialism in Detail and Representative Authors Joseph Conrad (1857–1924), Isak Dinesen (1885–1962), E. M. Forster (1879–1970), H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925), Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923)	-	-
3	Representative Works of Colonialism Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Out of Africa, A Passage to India, She, The Story of an African Farm, The White Man’s Burden, The Woman at the Store	-	-
4	Themes of Colonial Works: Imperialism and Empire, National Identity, Gender and Sexuality, Race, Human Nature, Adventure. Style of Colonial Works: Setting, Narration, Autobiography, Modernism	-	-
5	Movement Variations: Missionary Writing, Travel Writing, Colonial Themes in Nineteenth-Century Literature	-	-
6	Historical Context: Early History, Global Conflicts, British Imperialism, Rebellion and Independence, Colonial Education and Patronage, The Science of Imperialism	-	-
7	Critical Essay Readings on Colonialism	-	-
8	Mid-Term Exam	-	-
9	Introduction to Postcolonialism in Literary Works Representative Figures as Novelists: Chinua Achebe (1930-2103), J. M. Coetzee (1940–), Frantz Fanon (1925–1961), Salman Rushdie (1947–), Michael Ondaatje (1943–), Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942–), Derek Walcott (1930-2017) Representative Works: Breath, Eyes, Memory, Ceremony, Decolonizing the Mind, Disgrace, The English Patient, Midnight’s Children, Rose, A Small Place, Things Fall Apart Themes: Racism, Language, Identity Style: Point of View, Narration, Setting Movement Variations: Literary Theory, Film, Music, American Literature	-	-
10	Historical Context Post-World War II. Critical Overview	-	-
11	Critical Essays and Academic Articles on Colonialism and Postcolonialism	-	-
12	Postcolonialism as a Literary Criticism	-	-
13	Representative Figures as Theorists & Critics Frantz Fanon Edward Said	-	-
14	Homi K. Bhabha Henry Louis Gates, Jr.	-	-

Recommended or Required Reading

Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture. New York and London: Routledge, 1994. Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. Trans. Constance Farrington. New York: Grove Press, 1963. Gates, Jr., Henry Louis, Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the “Racial” Self. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. ——. Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. Said, Edward. Beginnings: Intention and Method. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. ——. Orientalism. New York: Vintage, 1978. ——. The World, the Text, and the Critic. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983. Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1999. Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures. New York and London: Routledge, 1989. ——, eds. The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. New York and London: Routledge, 1995. Booth, Howard, ed. Modernism and Empire. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. Young, Robert. Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001. Literary Movements for Students/Gale Cengage Learning-Second Edition/2009. Habib, M. A. R. A History of Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present/2005.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Midterm Examination	1	100
SUM		100
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Final Examination	1	100
SUM		100
Term (or Year) Learning Activities		40
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities		60
SUM		100

Language of Instruction

Work Placement(s)

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination	1	3	3
Final Examination	1	3	3
Attending Lectures	14	3	42
Discussion	14	3	42
Question-Answer	14	3	42
Criticising Paper	6	2	12
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			144

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

	PO 1	PO 2	PO 3	PO 4	PO 5	PO 6	PO 7	PO 8	PO 9	PO 10	PO 11	PO 12	PO 13	PO 14	PO 15	PO 16
LO1	4	5	5	4	5	5	3	4	4	5	5	5	5	4	3	4
LO2	4	4	5	5	5	5	4	5	5	4	5	4	5	4	4	5
LO3	4	1	3	4	4	4	5	2	5	4	3	3	4	2	2	2
LO4	4	4	5	5	5	5	4	5	5	4	5	4	4	4	4	2
LO5	5	4	3	4	4	4	3	2	5	4	3	4	5	5	5	5

* Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High