Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature

1. Introduction. Tragedy and the maze of moments; 2. Shakespeare: Ethical cosmopolitanism and Shakespeare's Othello; 3. Chinua Achebe: History and the conscription to colonial modernity in Chinua Achebe's rural novels; 4. Wole Soyinka: Ritual dramaturgy and the social imaginary in Wole Soyinka's tragic theatre; 5. Tayeb Salih: Archetypes, self-authorship, and melancholia: Tayeb Salih's Seasons of Migration to the North; 6. Toni Morrison: Form, freedom and ethical choice in Toni Morrison's Beloved; 7. J. M. Coetzee: On moral residue and the affliction of second thoughts: J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians; 8. Arundhati Roy: Enigmatic variations, language games and the arrested bildungsroman: Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things; 9. Samuel Beckett: Distressed embodiment and the burdens of boredom: Samuel Beckett's Postcolonialism; 10. Conclusion: Postcolonial tragedy and the question of method.

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• Estudos literários: clássica, primitiva e medieval
• Teorias literárias
• Estudos literários: c 1500 a c 1800
• Estudos literários: literatura pós-colonial
• Estudos e crítica shakespeareana
• Estudos literários: ficção, romancistas e escritores de prosa
• Filosofia ocidental: Antiga, a C 500
• Filosofia ocidental: Medieval e do Renascimento, c 500 a 1600 c