The course chiefly intends to introduce M2 students of Literature and Civilization to Postcolonial literature; a wide range of writing that is produced by the former colonized during and after colonization. This literature, first and foremost, reacts against, revises, relativizes, and deconstructs the longstanding history of Western logocentrism that seriously led to Manichean dichotomies that can be summarized in the West and the Rest/Other and all its implications. As many negative images and stereotypes revolving around the Other as a direct result of that dichotomy, postcolonial literature harshly attacks those stereotypes and deadly strives to fix them. Then, the primary goal of this course is to provide a theoretical framework for reading and analyzing Postcolonial texts with casting light on the impact of the ex-colonizer on the ex-colonized, from the very first contact till present, in different areas such as politics, economy, history, and culture. It will also provide key concepts and figures related to the theory --to name but few: identity, hybridity, racism, hegemony, Franz Fanon, Edward Said, Chinua Achebe, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o-- to understand the nature of the relationship between the colonizer and colonized and how it is represented in different literatures with a special focus on African and Caribbean literatures.
- Enseignant: Mordjana Haddad