English Literature / Unit 18 ENL 1730 worked example, 60 to 90 seconds
Matching Postcolonial Authors, Works and Places
The idea
Sort by place. Nigeria: Achebe, Things Fall Apart; Soyinka, Death and the King's Horseman. Kenya: Ngũgĩ, Decolonising the Mind. South Africa: Gordimer; Coetzee, Disgrace. Saint Lucia: Walcott, Omeros. Trinidad: Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas; Selvon, The Lonely Londoners. Dominica: Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea. Barbados: Brathwaite. India: Rushdie, Midnight's Children; Desai; Narayan, Malgudi; Roy, The God of Small Things. Canada: Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale; Munro's stories. Australia: White, Voss. New Zealand: Mansfield, Adcock. Southern Rhodesia: Lessing, The Grass Is Singing. London: Zadie Smith, White Teeth. Then check the clue in the description: a prequel to Jane Eyre is Rhys, a telepathic generation Rushdie, an Igbo leader Achebe.
In practice
Place by place.
Where people slip
Rhys and Naipaul are both Caribbean-born, from different islands. Check the island and the work together.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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