Postcolonial and Anglophone Literatures (1947 to present)
Period Reading List for Part One Exam
1. Rushdie, Midnight's Children
2. Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
3. Said, Orientalism, Culture & Imperialism
4. Spivak "Can the Subaltern Speak?"
5. Bhabha, The Location of Culture
6. Salih, Seasons of Migration to the North
7. Achebe, Things Fall Apart
8. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians or Foe
9. Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
10. Cesaire, A Tempest
11. Soyinka, Wole. Death and the King’s Horsemen
12. Hall, Familiar Stranger
13. Walcott, Collected Poems
14. Naipaul, The Enigma of Arrival
16. Roy, The God of Small Things
17. Adichie, The Thing Around My Neck
18. Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
19. Hamid, Exit West
20. Tim Winton, Breath
Selected Text for Part Two Exam
The next time the comprehensive examination in this period is offered, the Part Two text will be
Roy’s The God of Small Things