Unit name | Interrelation of Culture Between Britain, Africa and the Caribbean |
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Unit code | ENGL30137 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Dr. Gournet |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
none |
Co-requisites |
none |
School/department | Department of English |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
Description
This unit will introduce students to the diversity of literature written from British former African and Caribbean colonies and its distinctive qualities. Students will study a selection of texts from a variety of writers covering the period from Negritude to contemporary with a particular focus on the British cultural legacy in the African and Caribbean speaking countries.
Aims:
This unit will aim to examine the interrelation of cultures between the ‘mother country’ and former African and Caribbean colonies. Through the study of language, literature and music, students will be asked to read a range of creative, critical, and theoretical works, and to place them in a wider historical context. Through this work, students will also have an opportunity to consider broader developments in contemporary writing.
Successful students will be able to:
This unit will be delivered through a combination of synchronous and asynchronous teaching.
Each seminar will utilise a range of teaching methods including lectures by the tutor(s), formal and informal presentations by students, small group discussion supportied by formative tasks and self-directed exercises.
1 x 3500-word essay (70%) [ILOs 1-4]
1 x Oral presentation (30%) [ILOs 1-4]
Stephen Greenblatt, Norton' Anthology' of English 'L'iterature': The' t'w'entieth' and 'Twenty First' Centuries'. 10th Edition.
Paula Burnett, The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse in English
Eustace Palmer, An introduction to the African 'Novel
Wa Thiong'o Ngugi, Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
Barry Chevannes, 'Betwixt and Between: Explorations in an African-Caribbean Mindscape
Bill Ashcroft: The Empire Writes back