Postgraduate Course: Postcolonial Settlers: migration and displacement in literature and film (ENLI11135)
Course Outline
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School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College |
College of Humanities and Social Science |
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Standard |
Availability |
Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits |
20 |
| Home subject area |
English Literature |
Other subject area |
None |
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| Course description |
This module will invite students to examine a range of literary texts and film, as well as writing by asylum seekers, and to consider what it means to belong in a world in which so many people are on the move. Key issues will include how identity is constructed and contested in displacement, particularly in relation to space, gender, narrative and memory, and also the relationship between migration and literary and cinematic form. The module is divided into three sections. It begins with an introduction to postcolonial $ùmigrant aesthetics&©, followed by three sessions which trace the development of post-war black British writing. Having established a critical understanding of postcolonial approaches to displacement, the module then focuses on asylum as a postcolonial issue. This section will take a more explicitly interdisciplinary focus, in which students will be encouraged to read the primary material in relation to, for example, film, recent UK asylum legislation and hospitality theory. The final three sessions concentrate on the figure of the postcolonial cosmopolitan and related questions of writing place, and the relationship between globally- and locally-oriented forms of belonging. |
Entry Requirements
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Other requirements |
None
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| Additional Costs |
None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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WebCT enabled: No |
Quota: None |
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| By the end of this module, through your contributions to group discussion, independent reading, and assessed and non-assessed work you will be able to: demonstrate an understanding of the issues surrounding displacement, migration and asylum, and be able to place the primary texts in an appropriate historical and critical context; evaluate a range of key critical concepts relating to postcolonial theory, migrant aesthetics, and refugee/asylum discourse, and apply this critical knowledge to an analysis of the primary texts; work with interdisciplinary sources; read and discuss film using an appropriate critical vocabulary; reflect constructively on good learning practice; articulate how your own thinking about the key module issues has developed. |
Assessment Information
| 1 x 4,000 word essay: 100% |
Special Arrangements
| Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Dr Simon Malpas
Tel: (0131 6)50 3618
Email: Simon.Malpas@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Ms June Haigh
Tel: (0131 6)50 3612
Email: j.haigh@ed.ac.uk |
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