This course is, first, intended to serve as a general introduction to postcolonial literature and theory. In compliance with this, a number of the most influential theorists of postcolonialism as well as some of the literary works that have had specific significance for the debates and discussions in the field will be covered. Particular attention will be given to the problematic disciplinarity of "postcolonial studies": the origins of the term itself and the modes of its differentiation from studies of national liberation and of diaspora; the shift from historical and social-scientific conceptions of the postcolonial to essentially literary-critical ones; the problems and failures of the literary paradigm of postcolonial studies as they became manifest in the 1980s; and the tendency of literary scholars working in this field today to extend the postcolonial across ever broader zones of history and geography.

The aim of this course is to introduce the concepts of colonization, decolonization, postcolonialism, neocolonialism and their impacts on the colonized countries and further across the globe. The course also aims to acquaint students with the literature written in different countries during the period of colonization and also after its fall. It aims to introduce the theory of colonial and postcolonial literature, resistance and representation, colonial discourses reflected in different texts written by different writers during and after the colonial times. Another goal is to familiarize students with the impact of colonialism to this day.