Chinua Achebe: Things fall apart , 1958.
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness , 1899.
Arundhati Roy: The god of small things , 1997.
Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea , 1966.
Tayeb Salih: Trekket mot nord , 1966.
1.2 Fortellinger, noveller, og utdrag av en roman. Tekstkompendium LIT 4380 Del I (ca. 145 s., kj?pes hos Kopiutsalget i underetasjen hos Akademika)
Tusind og en nat. Udvalgte fort?llinger. (ca 800). Kbh 2005, s 9-28 og s 298-300.
Lu Xun: ¡±Godt nytt?r!¡±(1924), overs. av Vibeke B?rdahl og Liu Pai-shah, i Elisabeth Aasen (red): Fortellinger fra fjerne str?k, Oslo 1978, s. 56-78.
Rabindranath Tagore: ¡±The Postmaster (1891)¡±, i Chaudhuri (red.): The Picador book of Modern Indian Literature, Picador: London 2001, s. 29-34.
Mahasweta Devi: ¡±The Hunt¡±, i Imaginary Maps. Three Stories by Mahasweta Devi. Translated and introduced by Gayatri Spivak, Routledge: London/ New York 1995, s. 1-17.
Toni Morrison: ¡±Recitatif¡± (1983): Baraka, Amiri et al. (red): Confirmation. An Anthology of African American Women, Quill, 1983, s. 243-261.
I tillegg velges ytterligere tre verk i samr?d med fagl?rer: Noen forslag:
Montesquieu: Persiske brev (1721)
Denis Diderot: Supplement to Bougainville¡¯s Voyage (1764)
Rudyard Kipling: Kim (1901)
E. M. Forster: A Passage to India (1924)
Virginia Woolf: The Waves (1931)
Kateb Yacine: Nedjma (1956)
Assia Djebar: L'amour, la fantasia (1985)/ Kj?rlighet, fantasia, overs. av Karin Holter (2003).
John M. Coetzee: Foe (1986)
Toni Morrison: Beloved (1987)
Ben Okri: The Famished Road (1991)
Sven Lindqvist: Utrota varenda j?vel (1992) eller ?kendykarna (1990)
2. Sekund?rlitteratur
2.1 Verk (kj?pes/l?nes)
Christopher Prendergast (red.): -Debating World Literature-, Verso: London/New York 2004. Fra denne antologien hentes (ca. 90 sider):
Stefan Hoesel-Uhlig: ¡±The Directions of Goethe¡¯s Weltliteratur¡± Emily Apter: ¡±Global Tranlatio: The ¡¯Invention¡¯ of Comparative Literature, Istanbul, 1993¡± Franco Moretti: ¡±Conjectures on World Literature¡±
Bart Moore-Gilbert/Gareth Stanten/ Willy Maley (red): Postcolonial Criticism, New York & London 1997. Fra denne antologien hentes (ca. 70 s.):
Aime C¨¦saire: ¡±From Discourse on Colonialism¡± (18s) Frantz Fanon: ¡±On National Culture¡± (21s) Chinua Achebe: ¡±An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness¡±(14s) Bell Hooks: ¡±Revolutionary Black Women: Making Ourselves Subject¡± (19s)
2.2 Tekster i kompendium LIT 4380 Del II (ca. 150 s., kj?pes p? Akademika - I tillegg kommer en tekst om oversettelse, ca 25 sider)
Eckermann, J.P.: ¡°Onsdagen den 31. januari 1827¡±, i Samtal med Goethe under hans sista levnads?r, Stockholm 1961, s. 227-232.
Eric Auerbach: ¡±Verdenslitteraturens filologi¡± , i Norsk Litteraturvitenskapelig Tidsskrift 1/2006, s 2-10
Edward Said:
¡±Innledning¡±, i Orientalismen, overs. av Anne Aabakken, Oslo 1994, s. 11- 39.
¡±Reflections on Exile¡±, i Reflections on Exile and Other Essays, Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Mass. 2000, s. 173-186
¡±Preface to the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition of Orientalism¡±, i Orientalism. 25th Anniversary Edition, Vintage Books: New York 2003, s. xv-xxx.
¡°The Word, the Text and the Critic¡±, The Word, the Text and the Critic. Lon 1983, s 31-53
Bhabha, Homi K.: ¡±Of mimicry and man: The ambivalence of colonial discourse¡± og ¡±Signs taken for wonders: Questions of ambivalence and authority under a tree outside Dehli, May 1817¡±, i The location of culture, Routledge: London/New York 1994, s. 85-92 og 102-122.
Gayatri Spivak/Mahasweta Devi: ¡±The Author in Conversation¡± og ¡±Translator¡¯s Preface¡±, i Imaginary Maps. Three Stories by Mahasweta Devi. Translated and introduced by Gayatri Spivak, Routledge: London/ New York 1995, s. ix-xxix.
Ngugi Wa Tiong¡¯o: ¡±On the Abolition of the English Departement¡±. Homecoming essays, 1972 (4 s.)
Abel, Elisabeth:¡±Black Writing, White Reading: Race and the Politics of Feminist Interpretation¡± (1993), i Robyn R. Warhol/Diane P. Herndl (red.): Feminisms, Macmillan Press: Basingstoke 1997, s. 827- 852.
Larson, Charles: ¡±Heroic Ethnocentrism: The Idea of Universality in Literature¡±, Bill Aschcroft et al. (red.): The postcolonial studies reader, Routledge: London/New York 1995, s. 62-65.
Helge Jordheim: ¡±Verdenslitteratur og litteraturforskningens kairos¡±, i Norsk Litteraturvitenskapelig Tidsskrift 1/2006.
Madsen, Peter: ¡±Efterskrift¡± til Tusind og en nat. Udvalgte fort?llinger. Kbh 2005, s 303-318
I tillegg kommer ca 100 s sekund?rlitteratur relatert til oppgaven, fra for eksempel:
Simon Gikandi, Maps of Englishness. N.Y. 1996