- To interrogate the nature of “post-colonialism” as a literary concept.
- To show the variety and diversity of anglophone literatures in the twentieth century in the post-colonial period.
- To show how post-colonial literatures incorporate or resist the canonical texts of English literature.
- To show how the imperial centre may be abrogated or ironized within the text.
- To explore the cultural diversities and pluralities that constitute anglophone “national” literatures.
- To analyse the ways in which English has become a means of interrogating the colonial signifiers.
- To analyse the ways in which traditional literary forms are deconstructed and reconstructed in post-colonial literatures.
- To consider how indigenous folk and/or mythical styles and themes inform post-colonial literatures to constitute a syncretism of cultures.
