With reference to one or more course texts, consider the implications of this remark for reading postcolonial literature. It is through the medium of fantasy and the grotesque that marginalised histories are most effectively retrieved. In the light of this statement, discuss the use of fantasy in one or more of your course texts. Discuss the use of myth in one or more of your course texts. It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history that shape us, but the images of the past embodied in language.
Many authors simultaneously express the values and expose the contradictions of their age.
It is through narrative, through life histories, that cultural identities are formed. Explore the ways in which cultural identity is shaped by one or more of the texts on this course. The genre of autobiography may be of particular interest here. Remember that the texts themselves are to a certain degree documents of civilisation that this is not purely a question about thematics. Travel narrows the mind .