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123210 VO Literatures in English (2016W)
Home and Away in Postcolonial Literatures
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Home and Away in Postcolonial Literatures
Literature from the Anglophone sphere has a complex relationship to the English literary canon, responding to and exploring the form, function, and aesthetics of the English-language novel. Much of the fiction from former colonies questions and adapts European concepts of the nation and modernity, and narrativises issues of colonial history and its after-effects, particularly regarding identity and citizenship, complicated by criss-crossing migrations to and from Britain and the rest of the world. This course analyses novels from the Caribbean, the Pacific, Australia, India, and Africa to analyse their portrayals of local and national identities, and how concepts of home, rootedness, and tradition are challenged and changed by stories of migration. In the books we study, England is not the home of English literature but the exotic, foreign, strange away country, a reversal that challenges our idea of what is English literature.
Literature from the Anglophone sphere has a complex relationship to the English literary canon, responding to and exploring the form, function, and aesthetics of the English-language novel. Much of the fiction from former colonies questions and adapts European concepts of the nation and modernity, and narrativises issues of colonial history and its after-effects, particularly regarding identity and citizenship, complicated by criss-crossing migrations to and from Britain and the rest of the world. This course analyses novels from the Caribbean, the Pacific, Australia, India, and Africa to analyse their portrayals of local and national identities, and how concepts of home, rootedness, and tradition are challenged and changed by stories of migration. In the books we study, England is not the home of English literature but the exotic, foreign, strange away country, a reversal that challenges our idea of what is English literature.
Details
Language: English
Examination dates
- Friday 27.01.2017 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
- Friday 03.03.2017 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
- Friday 05.05.2017 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
- Friday 30.06.2017 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Lectures and exam in English
- Friday 14.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
- Friday 21.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
- Friday 28.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
- Friday 04.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
- Friday 11.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
- Friday 18.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
- Friday 25.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
- Friday 02.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
- Friday 09.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
- Friday 16.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
- Friday 13.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
- Friday 20.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
written exam consisting of multiple choice, short answer, and essay-type question(s)
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
60% of both mc and essay question
Examination topics
contents of the lecture (powerpoint slides available on moodle)
primary reading (see reading list)
theoretical / secondary reading (extracts on moodle)
primary reading (see reading list)
theoretical / secondary reading (extracts on moodle)
Reading list
Theory (texts)
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities
Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffith, Helen Tiffin, The Empire Writes Back
Theory (extracts on moodle)
Timothy Brennan, Salman Rushdie and the Third World: Myths of the Nation and The National Longing for Form in Homi Bhabha, Nation and Narration
Homi Bhabha, Introduction in Nation and Narration
Salman Rushdie, Introduction, Imaginary Homelands and Step across this Line in Step Across this Line
Edward Said, The Politics of Knowledge and Orientalism Reconsidered in Reflections on Exile
Novels: (available at Facultas)
DOMINICA: Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, (Penguin Classics Student Edition 2001)
JAMAICA-UK: Andrea Levy, Small Island (Headline 2014)
ZIMBABWE : Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions (Ayebia 2004)
SOUTH AFRICA: Damon Galgut, The Imposter (Atlantic 2009)
SAMOA: Sia Figiel, Where We Once Belonged (any edition)
AUSTRALIA: Michelle De Kretser, The Lost Dog (Vintage 2009 edition)
INDIA: Sanjeev Sahota, The Year of the Runaways (Picador 2015)
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities
Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffith, Helen Tiffin, The Empire Writes Back
Theory (extracts on moodle)
Timothy Brennan, Salman Rushdie and the Third World: Myths of the Nation and The National Longing for Form in Homi Bhabha, Nation and Narration
Homi Bhabha, Introduction in Nation and Narration
Salman Rushdie, Introduction, Imaginary Homelands and Step across this Line in Step Across this Line
Edward Said, The Politics of Knowledge and Orientalism Reconsidered in Reflections on Exile
Novels: (available at Facultas)
DOMINICA: Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, (Penguin Classics Student Edition 2001)
JAMAICA-UK: Andrea Levy, Small Island (Headline 2014)
ZIMBABWE : Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions (Ayebia 2004)
SOUTH AFRICA: Damon Galgut, The Imposter (Atlantic 2009)
SAMOA: Sia Figiel, Where We Once Belonged (any edition)
AUSTRALIA: Michelle De Kretser, The Lost Dog (Vintage 2009 edition)
INDIA: Sanjeev Sahota, The Year of the Runaways (Picador 2015)
Association in the course directory
Studium: UF 344, ME 812, MA 812 (2); MA 844; UF MA 046
Code/Modul: UF 4.2.4-321, ME1, MA(2) M3; MA1; UF MA 1B, 4A
Lehrinhalt: 12-0404
Code/Modul: UF 4.2.4-321, ME1, MA(2) M3; MA1; UF MA 1B, 4A
Lehrinhalt: 12-0404
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