Africa – Can the Subaltern Speak?

Libro adottato a Siena, a.a. 2025/2026 · 1 canale

«Africa – Can the Subaltern Speak?» è adottato per Letteratura Inglese e Anglofona B dal prof. Elena Anna Spandri (Lettere Moderne – sede di Siena – Siena).

Come lo indica il docente: Testi in programma per 6 cfu (36 ore) Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (Penguin 2007) Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (Penguin 2025), An Image of Africa (Penguin 2010) V.S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas (Palgrave 2022), Literary Occasions (Picador 2004) Testi in programma per 9 cfu (54 ore) Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (Penguin 2007) Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (Penguin 2025), An Image of Africa (Penguin 2010) V.S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas (Palgrave 2022), Literary Occasions (Picador 2004) Un romanzo a scelta tra: - Chimamanda ‘Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus (Fourth Estate 2025), Americanah (Alfred Knopf 2013) - J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace (Penguin/Vintage/Viking) - Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss (Penguin 2007) - Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace (The Borough Press 2001), The Hungry Tide (The Borough Press 2005), Sea of Poppies (John Murray 2008) - Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist (Bloomsbury 2005) - Abdulrazak Gurnah, Paradise (Hamish Hamilton 1994), By the Sea (Bloomsbury 2001), Desertion (Bloomsbury 2005) - Moshin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Penguin 2025) - Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia (Faber & Faber 2017) - V.S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River (Picador 2002) - Ben Okri, The Famished Road (Vintage 2025) - Zadie Smith, White Teeth (Penguin 2001), Swing Time (Penguin 2017) STUDI CRITICI E STORICI (comuni per entrambi i programmi) - AA.VV. The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies, ed. Neil Lazarus, 2004 - AA.VV. The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel, ed. Ato Quayson, 2016 - Amitav Ghosh, The March of the Novel Through History (Moodle), Smoke and Ashes. Opium’s Hidden Histories (John Murray 2023), Wild Fictions. Essays (John Murray 2025) - Paul Gilroy, Postcolonial Melancholia (Columbia UP 2004) - Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Empire 1875-1914 (Abacus 2011) - Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands (Vintage 2025) - Edward Said, Orientalism (Penguin 2003), Culture and Imperialism (Vintage 2025) - Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland. How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain (Penguin 2021) - Gayatri C. Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak?” (Moodle) Sono indicate le edizioni più recenti ma vanno bene anche quelle precedenti

Chi lo adotta

• Letteratura Inglese e Anglofona B – Prof. Elena Anna Spandri (canale unico) a.a. 2025/2026Lettere Moderne – sede di Siena · Laurea magistrale (LM-14) · esame facoltativo · Letterature Straniere · 6 CFU

Programma e testi di ogni canale

Si studia insieme a

• Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness
• Chinua Achebe – An Image of Africa
• Doris Lessing – The Grass is Singing
• Nadine Gordimer – Stories 1952-2007
• Naipaul – A Bend in the River
• Abdulrazak Gurnah, Paradise (Hamish Hamilton 1994)