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· Define Postcolonialism Literature

· Provide at least 3 other Postcolonialism authors from Africa other than Achebe []

__**Script:**__ Slide 1: Postcolonialism and Postcolonialism literature Slide 2: Postcolonialism literature is literature written by people living in countries formerly colonized by other nations. Such nations include Africa and England where these stories are most popular. Slide 3: Isabel Allende was born on August 2, 1942. Her brilliant career began in 1962 when she published women and children’s magazines, along with television shows and movie documentaries in Chili. Later she traveled to Venezuela to publish a local newspaper. Along with her publishing career she wrote humorous short stories, spoke at lectures in America and Europe, taught literature workshops around the US, and wrote theatre plays in Chili. Slide 4: Aime Cesaire was born in Martinique in 1913. His poetry has been described as amazing and inspirational. His career began when he left Martinique for French where he studied literature until he graduated. Aime finally had his first book published in 1939, 3 years after the book was completed. Besides poetry he also worked in the drama department where he wrote different plays such as Une Tempest which was a version of Shakespeare’s famous masterpiece The Tempest. Slide 5: J.M. Coetzee was born in South Africa on February 9, 1940. After Coetzee received his PH d. in English, he became a Professor at the State University of New York in Buffalo. Over his lifetime he taught at Harvard, John Hopkins, Stanford, and the University of Chicago. In 1969, Coetzee’s first book was published in South Africa. He continued to write and successfully published around 15 books.