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Postgraduate Course: Black Atlantic (ENLI11023)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Literatures, Languages and Cultures CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course will look at the role of racial discourse in constructions of modernity, through a study of American and British texts. In particular, we will be concerned with the ways in which "Enlightenment" thinking and writing incorporated racial categories into the "humanist" project. The texts on this course engage with this problem and articulate alternative modernities in a Transatlantic context.
Course description Week 1 Introduction: Race and Modernity: Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic
Week 2 Olaudia Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of.......
Week 3 Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom,
& Thomas Carlyle, ¿Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question¿ (1853)
Week 4 Herman Melville, Benito Cereno, & Ralph Ellison, 'Mister Toussan'
Week 5 W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
Week 6 James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Week 7 Claude McKay, Banjo (1929)
Week 8 James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son (1964) & Ralph Ellison, ¿In A Strange Country¿ (1944)
Week 9 Jackie Kay, Trumpet (1998)
Week 10 Caryl Phillips, The Atlantic Sound (2000)
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs Purchase of essential texts as required.
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to engage and articulate alternative modernities in American contexts.
Reading List
Please note that in addition to these primary texts, Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic will be used regularly during seminars, so you are advised to bring your own copy.

Secondary Texts:
¿Emanuel Chukwudi Eze, ed. Race and the Enlightenment. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
¿J. Martin Favor. Authentic Blackness. Durham NC; London: Duke University Press, 1999.
¿Henry Louis Gates. Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the ¿Racial¿ Self. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
¿Elaine K Ginsberg. Passing and the Fictions of Identity. Durham NC; London: Duke University Press,1996.
¿C.L.R. James. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L¿Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. London: Allison & Busby, 1980.
¿Toni Morrison. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. London: Picador, 1992
¿Orlando Patterson. Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study. Cambridge, Mass.: London: Harvard University Press, 1982.
¿Alan Rice. Radical Narratives of the Black Atlantic. London: Continuum, 2002.
¿Alan Rice and Martin Crawford eds. Liberating Sojourn: Frederick Douglass and Transatlantic Reform. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1999.
¿Eric Sundquist. To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature. Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, 1993.
¿Eric Williams, Capitalism & Slavery. London: Andre Deutsch, 1964.
¿Richard Wright. Black Power. London: Harper Perennial, 2008
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsBA
Contacts
Course organiserDr Keith Hughes
Tel: (0131 6)50 3048
Email: keith.hughes@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Natalie Carthy
Tel: (0131 6)50 6536
Email: Natalie.Carthy@ed.ac.uk
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