Testi in programma
Da The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. II, ninth edition:
Thomas B. Macaulay, Minute on Indian Education, 1860.
Matthew Arnold, On the Study of Celtic Literature, 1867.
James A. Froude, The English in the West Indies, 1888.
Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses, 1833; Opening on the Indian and Colonial Exhibition by the Queen, 1886.
Joseph Chamberlain, The True Conception of Empire, 1897.
J. A. Hobson, Imperialism: A Study, 1902.
Rudyard Kipling, The Man Who Would Be King, 1888 (reperibile anche nell’edizione con testo italiano a fronte: L’uomo che volle farsi re, a cura di Mario Domenichelli, Marsilio, 2011); Recessional, 1897; The White Man’s Burden, 1899.
Joseph Conrad, Preface to “The Nigger of the Narcissus”, 1898; Heart of Darkness,1899 (reperibile anche nell’edizione con testo a fronte: Cuore di tenebra, Mondadori 2000).
George Orwell, Shooting and Elephant, 1936.
Derek Walcott, A Far Cry from Africa, 1956.
Kamau Brathwaite, Calypso, 1976; Nation Language, 1979.
Wole Shoyinka, Telephone Conversation, 1960.
Ngugi Wa Thiong’O, Decolonising the Mind, 1986.
Salman Rushdie, The Prophet’s Hair, 1981; The British Indian Writer and a Dream-England, 1982; English Is an Indian Literary Language, 1983.
Nadine Gordimer, The Moment Before the Gun Went Off, 1991.
Chinua Achebe, Civil Peace, 1971.
V.S. Naipaul, One Out of Many, 1971.
Hanif Kureishi, You Will Always Be a Paki; 1986, My Son the Fanatic, 1997.
Zadie Smith, The Waiter’s Wife, 1998.

Bibliografia secondaria

Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism, Vintage, 1993.
Silvia Albertazzi, La letteratura postcoloniale. Dall’impero alla World Literature, Carocci, 2013.