Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
Course Objectives
• To introduce the students to concepts, concerns, critical debates in translation
studies
• To expose students to the applicability of the theoretical frameworks
• To enable students to critically perceive and engage with production, signification
and negotiation of meanings in translations
Course Description
5 Hrs
Theorising
Edward Said: ‘Introduction’ in Orientalism
Stephen Slemon: ‘Post-colonial Critical Theories’
Bibliography
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Ashcroft et al. The Empire Writes Back, London:Routledge, 1989
Ashcroft, Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies, London:
Routledge, 1998
Bhabha, Homi, The Location of Culture, London: Routledge, 1994
Boehmer, Elleke, Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, Oxford: OUP, 1995
Bromley, Roger. Narratives for a New Belonging: Diasporic Cultural Fictions.
Edinburgh. Edinburgh UP, 2000.
Castle, Gregory. Ed. Postcolonial Discourses: An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.
Childs and Williams. An Introduction to Post-Colonial Theory, London: Prentice Hall,
1997
Childs, Peter. Post –Colonial Theory and English Literature: A Reader. Edinburg:
Edinburgh University Press, 1999.
Dipesh Chakrabarty. Habitations of Modernity – Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies.
New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2002.
Halbwachs, Maurice. The Collective Memory. USA, Harper and Row, 1980.
Innes, CL. The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English. New
Delhi: CUP, 2007.
Koselleck, Reinhart. Futures Past. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.
Mcleod, John, Beginning Postcolonialism, Manchester: Manchester University Press,
2000
Mukherjee, Meenakshi. ed. Early Novels in India. Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2002.
Nandy, Ashis. ed. The Romance of the State, and the Fate of Dissent in the Tropics. New
Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2002
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Yack, Bernard. The Fetishism of Modernities: Epochal Self-Consciousness in
Contemporary Social and Political Thought. Notre Dame: University of Notre
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