Undergraduate Course: Fictions of Other Britains: Race, Diaspora, Culture (ENLI10194)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | English Literature |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
http://www.englit.ed.ac.uk/studying/undergrd/honours/4year/index.htm |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course is designed to introduce students to a range of post-War and contemporary fiction by writers from Black African, Caribbean and South Asian descent - whether as migrants or the descendents of settlers, Other Britons who offer portraits of Other Britains. The course traces the effort to find accommodation - in Britain by the peoples of its former colonies and examines the subversive and challenging impact of their redrawing of Britishness, returning to Britain its own repressed history. |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| Students will gain an appreciation of postcolonial theory, and develop an expertise in utilising theories of migration, diaspora and hybridity. A range of problematics will be analysed that covers race, ethnicity, gender, class, topography, language. Students will not only examine the positive experience of diasporic writing, the re-appropriation of English as a language, the reclamation of home and so on, but also, of necessity, confront issues of racism, intolerance, social exclusion. Students will be enabled to trace the construction of more emancipatory identities and a redefinition of Britishness through the fiction examined by the course. |
Assessment Information
| 1 essay of 2,500 words (25%); one 2-hour examination (75%) |
Special Arrangements
| Numbers are limited to 15, with priority given to students taking degrees involving English or Scottish Literature and Visiting Students placed by the Admissions Office. Students not in these categories need the written approval of the Head of English Literature before enrolling. In the case of excess applications places will be decided by ballot. |
Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Aaron Kelly
Tel: (0131 6)50 3071
Email: Aaron.Kelly@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Sheila Strathdee
Tel: (0131 6)50 3619
Email: S.Strathdee@ed.ac.uk |
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