Exam Field List: Postcolonial Literature (In English)

Novels

Things Fall Apart (1958)  – Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)

Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) – Jean Rhys (Antigua, Jamaica, UK)

A Grain of Wheat (1967) – Ngugi wa Thiong’o (Kenya)

The Joys of Motherhood (1979) – Buchi Emecheta (Nigeria)

Midnight’s Children (1980) – Salman Rushdie (India, Pakistan)

Clear Light of Day (1980)– Anita Desai (India)

July’s People (1981) – Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)

Foe (1986) – JM Coetzee (South Africa)

No Telephone to Heaven (1987) – Michelle Cliff (Jamaica)

Cracking India (1991) – Bapsi Sidhwa (India, Pakistan)

Paradise (1994) – Abdulrazak Gurnah (Zanzibar)

The God of Small Things (1997) – Arundhati Roy (India, UK)

Short Stories

Selections from Colonial and Postcolonial Fiction: An Anthology (1999) edited by Robert L. Ross

• “A Matter of Taste” (1967) by Alex La Guma (South Africa)
• “The Gold Watch” (1958) by Mulk Raj Anand (India)
• “Do You Love Me?” (1979) by Peter Carey (Australia)
• “The Perfume Sea” (1970) by Margaret Laurence (Canada, West Africa)
• “A Horse and Two Goats” (1970) by RK Narayan (India)
• “The Hills” (1987) by Patricia Grace (New Zealand)

Selections from The Arnold Anthology of Post-Colonial Literatures in English (1996) edited by John Thieme

• “Incidents at the Shrine” (1987) by Ben Okri (Nigeria)
• “The Whale” (1970) and “This Life is Weary” (1989) by Witi Ihimaera (New Zealand)
• “A Resurrection” (1974) and “Towards a New Oceana” (1976) by Albert Wendt (Samoa, South Pacific)
• “Five Fingers” (1974) by Lee Kok Liang (Malaysia)

Drama

Death and the King’s Horseman (1979) – Wole Soyinka (Nigerian)

Anowa (1970) – Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana)

Dream on Monkey Mountain (1967) – Derek Walcott (Caribbean)

No Sugar (1985) – Jack Davis (Australia)

You Strike the Woman, You Strike the Rock (1986) – Phyllis Klotz et. al. (South Africa)

Tell It To Women: An Epic Drama (1995) – Tess Onwueme (Nigeria)

Poetry

Selections from The Heinemann book of Caribbean Poetry (1997)

Selections from The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry Fifth Edition (2007)

Selections from The Collected Poems of AK Ramanujan (1976) – AK Ramanujan (India)

The Humble Administrator’s Garden (1985) – Vikram Seth (India)

Theory and Criticism

Selections from The Post-Colonial Studies Reader (1995) edited by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin

• “Can the Subaltern Speak” by Gayayti Chakravorty Spivak
• “Signs Taken for Wonders” by Homi K. Bhabha
• “Problems in Current Theories of Colonial Discourse” by Benita Parry
• “The Scramble for Post-colonialism” by Stephen Slemon
• “The Postcolonial and the Postmodern” by Kwame Anthony Appiah
• “Postmodernism or Post-colonialism Today” by Simon During

Home and Harem : Nation, Gender, Empire, and the Cultures of Travel (1996) by Inderpal Grewal

Beginning Postcolonialism (2000) by John McLeod

The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English (2001) by Jahan Ramazani