Universität des Saarlandes
FR 4.3 Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Anglophone Kulturen
Transcultural Anglophone Studies (TAS)
<www.tas.uni-saarland.de>
Modulelement: Selbststudium Leseliste LAG
Modul 14: Literatur und Kultur Vertiefung 2 (LAG)
Exam: written exam (“unbenotet”)
(Recommended time frame for exam: 7th – 8th semester)
This list includes the required readings for Transcultural Anglophone Studies/Neue
Englischsprachige Literaturen und Kulturen. We strongly recommend that you start
reading early.
The exam completes a “Selbststudium” module. If you have not read all of the texts on the
lists closely and critically (including relevant secondary literature wherever applicable), it
might make sense to choose a later date for the exam. You will be expected to compare/
contrast the texts on the list and situate them in the broader context of Transcultural
Anglophone Studies (TAS), its analytical perspective and its historical horizon.
The TAS website offers a wide array of resources to accompany, facilitate, and support your
independent study of these texts. If you wish to take a “mock exam” to familiarize yourself
with the exam modalities, please register for the TAS Colloquium that is offered every
semester.
Fiction:
Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. 1958. London: Heinemann, 1986.
Anand, Mulk Raj. Untouchable. 1935. London: Penguin, 1990.
Coetzee, John Maxwell. In the Heart of the Country. 1976. London: Penguin, 1982.
Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad. A House for Mr Biswas. 1961. London: Vintage, 2001.
Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea. 1966. London: Penguin, 2001.
Rushdie, Salman. Midnight’s Children. 1981. London: Vintage, 2006.
Autobiographies:
Morgan, Sally. My Place. 1987. London: Little, Brown, 2001.
Mphahlele, Es'kia. Down Second Avenue. 1959. Johannesburg: Picador Africa, 2004.
Ondaatje, Michael. Running in the Family. 1982. London: Vintage, 1993.
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Drama:
Dattani, Mahesh. Dance Like a Man. 1989. Collected Plays. New Delhi: Penguin,
2000. 383–447.
Fugard, Athol. Sizwe Bansi is Dead. Sizwe Bansi is Dead and The Island. 1974. New
York: Viking, 1976.
Lovelace, Earl. The Dragon Can't Dance. 1984. Black Plays 2. Ed. Yvonne Brewster. London:
Methuen, 1989.
Walcott, Derek. Pantomime. 1978. Postcolonial Plays: An Anthology. Ed. Helen Gilbert.
London: Routledge, 2001.
Short Stories:
Deshpande, Shashi. "My Beloved Charioteer." The Inner Courtyard.
Holmstrom. London: Virago, 1990. 128-135.
Ed. Lakshmi
King, Thomas. "The One About Coyote Going West." 1990. The Arnold Anthology of PostColonial Literatures in English. Ed. John Thieme. London: Arnold, 1996.
Lawson, Henry. "The Drover's Wife." 1896. The Arnold Anthology of Post-Colonial
Literatures in English. Ed. John Thieme. London: Arnold, 1996. 162-168.
Melville, Pauline. "I Don't Take Messages From Dead People." Shape-Shifter. London:
Picador, 1990. 1-14.
Sam, Agnes. "Jesus is Indian." 1989. Jesus is Indian and Other Stories. London: Heinemann,
1994.
Poetry:
Bennett, Louise. “Colonisation in Reverse." 1966. Writing Black Britain 1948-1998. Ed.
James Procter. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2000. 16-17.
Crusz, Rienzi. "Roots." The Arnold Anthology of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. Ed.
John Thieme. London: Arnold, 1996. 892.
Dabydeen, David. “Coolie Odyssey.” Coolie Odyssey. London: Hansib, 1988. 37-43.
Das, Kamala. “An Introduction.” 1965. Nine Indian Women Poets: An Anthology. Ed.
Eunice de Souza. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. 10. [original in Summer in
Calcutta. New Delhi: Rajinder Paul, 1965.]
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Das, Mahadai. “They Came in Ships.” 1987. The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature.
Ed. Alison Donnell and Sarah Lawson Welsh. London: Routledge, 1996. 302-303.
Ezekiel, Nissim. “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” Ten Twentieth Century Indian
Poets. Ed. R. Parthasarathy. New Delhi: Oxford UP, 1999. 37-38.
Harpur, Charles. "A Mid-Summer Noon in the Australian Forest." 1883. The Arnold
Anthology of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. Ed. John Thieme. London: Arnold,
1996. 150-151.
Johnson, Linton Kwesi. “Inglan Is A Bitch.” 1980. Mi revalueshanary fren: Selected Poems.
London: Penguin, 2002. 39-41. [original in Inglan Is A Bitch. London: Race Today, 1980.]
Kipling, Rudyard. "Christmas in India". 1888. Rudyard Kipling: The Complete Verse.
London: Kyle Cathie, 1990.
Kipling, Rudyard. “The White Man’s Burden.” 1899. Empire Writing: An Anthology of
Colonial Literature 1870-1918. Ed. Elleke Boehmer. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998. 273-274.
McKay, Claude. “My Native Land My Home.” 1912. The Routledge Reader in Caribbean
Literature. Ed. Alison Donnell and Sarah Lawson Welsh. London: Routledge, 1996. 6465.
Nichols, Grace. “The Fat Black Woman Goes Shopping.” The Fat Black Woman’s Poems.
London: Virago, 1984. 11.
Nortje, Arthur Kenneth. "Waiting." 1967. Ten South African Poets. Ed. Adam Schwartzman.
Manchester: Carcanet, 1999. 23-24.
Osundare, Niyi. "Poetry is." 1983. Songs of the Marketplace. Ibadan: New Horn, 1983.
P’Bitek, Okot. "Song of Lawino." 1966. The Arnold Anthology of Post-Colonial Literatures
in English. Ed. John Thieme. London: Arnold, 1996. 68-72.
Porter, Peter. "Phar Lap in the Melbourne Museum." 1968. The Arnold Anthology of PostColonial Literatures in English. Ed. John Thieme. London: Arnold, 1996.
Soyinka, Wole. “Abiku.” 1967. The Arnold Anthology of Post-Colonial Literatures in
English. Ed. John Thieme. London: Arnold, 1996. 33-34.
Zephaniah, Benjamin. “A Modern Slave Song.” 1992. The Routledge Reader in Caribbean
Literature. Ed. Alison Donnell and Sarah Lawson Welsh. London: Routledge, 1996. 461.