British Literature of the African and Asian Diaspora - AAALD001AE

• Title: British Literature of the African and Asian Diaspora
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2021
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (5)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Is provided by: AAALD001A
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: PhDr. Soňa Nováková, CSc.
• Class: Exchange - 09.2 General and Comparative Literature; Exchange - 14.7 Anthropology

Annotation

N.B.: <br>
THIS CODE WAS CREATED SPECIFICALLY FOR ERASMUS STUDENTS who need a grade for this course.<br>
The course is only open to DALC incoming MA Erasmus students.<br>
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For the current syllabus see attachment above.
OBJECTIVES<br>
The course focuses on readings of texts exemplifying multicultural Britain and their re-narration of post-colonial <br>
experiences of exile and otherness. A brief excursion into the problematics of contemporary theoretical <br>
approaches will be followed by analyses of poems and novels by contemporary writers of Afro-Caribbean, African <br>
and Asian origin settled in and writing from Britain. Attention will be paid especially to the ways in which this body <br>
of writing can expand our understanding of the complex negotiations of identity: the possible shifts in identity that <br>
occur in relation to migration, the diasporic experience and the workings of the politics of inclusion and exclusion <br>
that erase and inscribe difference. Further issues for discussion and analysis include the role of language, memory <br>
and history, family and home, gender construction, oral and literary traditions. Discussions of primary texts will be <br>
supplemented by theoretical and critical readings exemplifying the range of contemporary (post-colonial) <br>
approaches.<br>
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MATERIAL<br>
novels: Hanif Kureishi – The Buddha of Suburbia<br>
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Sam Selvon – The Lonely Londoners<br>
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Caryl Phillips - The Final Passage <br>
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Salman Rushdie – from The Satanic Verses<br>
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Zadie Smith – White Teeth<br>
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or Bernardine Evaristo - The Emperor's Babe <br>
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(Please, note that the list of readings is subject to change. Consult the latest syllabus below. All material, except the <br>
long novels, is available on moodle.)<br>
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Short selections from the prose and poetry of Wole Soyinka, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jackie Kay, Grace Nichols, <br>
Fred D'Aguiar, Merle Collins, Derek Walcott, Amryl Johnson, Benjamin Zephaniah, James Berry, Sujata Bhatt, <br>
David Dabydeen etc. Theoretical texts include selections from the works of Homi Bhabha, Avtar Brah, G. Spivak, <br>
etc.<br>
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ASSESSMENT<br>
Credit requirements include active participation, one oral presentation or an essay based on a primary text <br>
(conditions for the submission of this essay are listed in the course syllabus below.) <br>

Last update: Nováková Soňa, PhDr., CSc. (21.09.2024)