TOPICS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE II: MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN
| Title | ΘΕΜΑΤΑ ΑΓΓΛΙΚΗΣ ΛΟΓΟΤΕΧΝΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ ΙΙ: ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΔΙΑΦΟΡΕΤΙΚΟΤΗΤΑ ΣΤΗ ΣΥΓΧΡΟΝΗ ΒΡΕΤΑΝΙΑ / TOPICS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE II: MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN |
| Code | Λογ6-341 |
| Faculty | Philosophy |
| School | English Language and Literature |
| Cycle / Level | 1st / Undergraduate |
| Teaching Period | Winter/Spring |
| Common | No |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 600008095 |
Programme of Study: 2024-2025
Registered students: 0
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KORMOS | Elective Courses | Winter/Spring | - | 6 |
| Academic Year | 2023 – 2024 |
| Class Period | Spring |
| Faculty Instructors |
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| Weekly Hours | 3 |
| Total Hours | 39 |
| Class ID | 600247923
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Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600247923
- At the Website of the School: https://www.enl.auth.gr/course.asp?Id=399
- eLearning: https://elearning.auth.gr/course/view.php?id=8348
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
- English (Instruction, Examination)
Prerequisites
General Prerequisites
non-existent
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the module, students are expected:
1. to be able to identify and critically engage with the main issues debated in contemporary British multiculture, especially in Black British and British Asian (con)texts
2. to appreciate the role of literature, art and popular culture in the making and refashioning of cultural identities
3. to demonstrate familiarity with the texts discussed in class, the theories used to read them and the rich histories and contexts that make them meaningful
General Competences
- Apply knowledge in practice
- Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
- Work autonomously
- Work in teams
- Work in an interdisciplinary team
- Generate new research ideas
- Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
- Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
- Be critical and self-critical
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
This module will examine the many faces of multicultural Britain as these have taken shape in the postwar years following the collapse of the British colonial empire in the middle of the twentieth century and the waves of migration from its former colonies that followed. The focus will be primarily on Black British and British Asian writings and cultural production and will invite students to consider a range of issues that are pressing in Britain’s multiracial and multi-religious communities today such as national identity and belonging (especially the idea of Englishness), cultural difference, (im)migration, diaspora, race relations and racism, art and (self-) representation, the emergence of political Islam, history, memory and the past. We will engage with a variety of literary, theoretical, cultural and visual texts that will include novels, short stories, poems, films, music, television programmes and art.
Aims
The aim of this module is to encourage students:
to appreciate the impact of colonialism, decolonization and migration on postwar English literature and identity
to familiarize themselves with and critically assess the problems and opportunities attendant on cross-cultural exchange
to consider literary and artistic representation in its political dimension as a site of struggle in the formation of individual and collective identities
Keywords
multiculturalism, Britain
Educational Material Types
- Multimedia
- Interactive excersises
- Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
- Use of ICT in Communication with Students
- Use of ICT in Student Assessment
Description
use of the E-Learning platform for communicating with students, accessing and assessing assignments, the use of power point presentations and videos during class, the use of the zoom platform when needed
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 117 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Reading Assigment | 5 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Project | 10 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Written assigments | 5 | ✓ | |||
| Exams | 13 | ✓ | |||
| Total | 150 |
Student Assessment
Description
Evaluation is: 1. by presentation, home-essay and final exam (optional; 50% + 50%); 2. presentation and contribution to class discussions (30%) and final exam (70%; optional) or 3. by final exam only (100%).
Student Assessment methods
- Written Exam with Extended Answer Questions (Formative, Summative)
- Written Assignment (Formative, Summative)
- Performance / Staging (Formative, Summative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
Arana, R. Victoria. Black British Writing. London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2004 (PR 120.B55B58)
Boxall, Peter. The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction: 1980-2018 , 2019 (PR881.C347 2019)
Chambers, Claire. British Muslim Fictions: Interviews with Contemporary Writers. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. (PR120.M87B75 2011)
Childs, Peter. Contemporary Novelists: British Fiction since 1970. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. (PR881.C53)
Dawson, Ashley. Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain. Ann Arbor: The U of Michigan P, 2007. (PR120.M55D39)
Dix, Andrew. Violence from Slavery to #Black Lives Matter, 2020 (PS173.N4V46 2020)
Donnell, Alison. Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. (Ref DA125.N4C63)
Higgins, Michael, Clarissa Smith and John Storey, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010. (DA110.C253 2010)
Lane, Richard. Contemporary British Fiction. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007. (PR881.C66)
Low, Gail Ching-Liang and Marion Wynne-Davies. A Black Canon? New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. (PR120.B55B53 2006)
Plain, Gill. British Literature in Transition, 1940-1960. (PR478.S57B775 2019)
Procter, James. Dwelling Places: Postwar Black British Writing. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2003. (PR120.B55P76)
Stein. Mark. Black British Literature: Novels of Transformation. Columbus: Ohio State University, 2004. (PR120.B55S74)
Englishness, Britishness
Baucom, Ian. Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1999. (PR478.N37B38)
Black, Jeremy. English Nationalism: a Short history, 2018. (DA118.B53 2018)
Buckledee, Steve. The Language of Brexit : How Britain Talked its Way out of the European Union , 2018. (HC240.25.G7B83 2018)
Easthope, Antony. Englishness and National Culture. New York: Routledge, 1999. (DA118.E23 1999)
McPhee, Graham. Empire and After: Englishness in a Postcolonial Perspective. Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2010 (DA118.E487)
Nasta, Susheila. Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. (PR129.A785N37)
Upstone, Sara. British Asian Fiction: Twenty-First Century Voices. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2016. (PR120.A75U67 2016)
Ware, Vron. Who Cares about Britishness: a Global View of the National Identity Debate. London: Arcadia Books, 2007. (DA118.W29 2007)
Webster, Wendy. Englishness and Empire, 1939-1965. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005. (DA16.W34 2005)
Westall, Claire and Michael Gardiner. Literature of an Independent England: Revisions of England, Englishness and English Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. (PR149.N3L58 2013)
Gender, Women, Feminism
Aston, Elaine. Feminist Views on the English Stage: Women Playwrights, 1990-2000. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006. (PR739.F45A77 2006)
Davies, Carole Boyce. Black Women, Writing, and Identity: Migrations of the Subject. London: Routledge, 1994. (PS153.N5D32) [see ‘Introduction: Migratory Subjectivities’]
Goodman, Lizbeth. Feminist Stages: Interviews with Women in Contemporary British Theatre. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996. (PN2595.13.W65G665)
Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. Reconstructing Womanhood, Reconstructing Feminism :Writings on Black Women. London: Routledge, 1996. (HQ1597.R43)
Jones, Amelia. The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader. New York: Routledge, 2003. (Archaeology School Library, HQ1121.F46 2003)
Mizza, Heidi Safia. ‘Mapping a genealogy of Black British feminism’. Black British Feminism: A Reader. Ed. Heidi Safia Mizza. London: Routledge, 1997. (DA125.N4B522)
(Pop) Culture
Dent, Gina and Michele Wallace, ed. Black Popular Culture. Seattle: Bay Press, 1992. (E185.86B532)
Doy, Gen. Black Visual Culture: Modernity and Postmodernity. London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2000. (Art School Library, N6768.D69 2000)
Additional bibliography for study
Gilroy, Paul. There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation. London : Unwin Hyman, 1987. (DA125.N4G55 1991)
Jordan, Glenn and Chris Weedon. Cultural Politics: Class, Gender, Race and the Postmodern World. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995. (NX180.S6J66)
Last Update
06-12-2021
