Filologia 2010-2011 - Gredos - Universidad de Salamanca

Facultad de Filología Guía Académica 2010-2011
Universidad de Salamanca
Please note: The ability to communicate and write in English is essential for this course and will determine your final grade. Students
will be required to carry out their own autobiographical experiments in the creation of fictional autobiographies.
PROGRAM AND READINGS
1-What is autobiography? The multiple visions and versions of autobiographical narratives
Reading: From Alameddine I, the Divine
2-Early autobiographical writings. Benjamin Franklin and the canonical autobiographical self.
Readings:
Franklin’s Autobiography (1st. part)
3-Multicultural autobiography:
Readings:
Equiano: from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (Chapter II)
William Apess; Luther Stanting Bear (handouts)
Gordon Henry, Excepts from The Light People
4-Hybrid “Is.” Postmodern revisions of autobiography
Readings:
Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior
Toni Morrison’s Beloved (excerpts)
R. Hinojosa’s …Y no se lo tragó la tierra
S. Mommaday’s The Way to Rainy Mountain
RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY
General.
Gurpequi, J.A., ed. Historia Crítica de la novela norteamericana. E. Elliott, The Columbia Literary History of The United States (1988), and
The Columbia History of the American Novel (1991). Sacvan Bercovitch The Cambridge History of American Literature (Prose Writing, 1940-
1990) (1999). T. Couser Altered Egoes (1988)
14975-LITERATURA POSTCOLONIAL EN LENGUA INGLESA (POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE IN ENGLISH)
Asignatura Optativa. Primer Semestre. 6 créditos
Profa. Olga Barrios Herrero
Phone: 923-29 44 00 Ext. 1754
E-mail: barrios@usal.es
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course will survey important works of literature by writers from old Biritish colonies who write in English. The course will mainly focus on
the postcolonial Anglophone literatures of Africa and the Caribbean. By combining literary texts and theory, we will examine a wide range of
issues that are addressed by the writers and critics studied throughout the course: language and its political implications; the interrelation of colonialism
and postcolonialism; hybridity (Western and African/Caribbean cultures); etc. In order to analyze these issues, we will examine mainly fic-
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