Undergraduate Course: The Black Atlantic (ENLI10183)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | A study of racial discourse in American and British literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. In particular, the role of 'race' in constructions of modernity and identity will be evaluated. |
| Course description |
Methodologies of the Black Atlantic: Race, Representation, and Resistance
Paul Gilroy, 'The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of Modernity'
Christina Sharpe, 'The Wake'
Josiah Wedgwood, Am I Not a Man and a Brother (Stafford, 1787); Slave Ship Brooks (Liverpool, 1788); John Comber, A Poor African (London,1861). [all hand-outs supplied]
Loophole of Retreat: Tracing Transatlantic Black Womanist Literary Paradigms
Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince (1831); Mary Seacole, The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands (1857)
Negotiating Femininity: Tracing Transatlantic Black Womanist Literary Paradigms Part II
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (1860) [available online at Documenting the American South]
Intersections, Liminality, and the Limits of Freedom
William and Ellen Craft, Running A Thousand Miles (1860)
Henry 'Box' Brown, Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown (1851) [available online at Documenting the American South]; see also 'The Mirror of Slavery'
'No Right to be a Hero': African Atlantic Acts and Arts of Revolution and Resistance - Toussaint Louverture, Sengbe Pieh and Harriet Tubman
John Barber, A History of the Amistad (1840); William Wells Brown, St. Domingo (1855); Sarah Bradford, Harriet, the Moses of Her People (1869). ). [available online at Documenting the American South] [selected excerpts]
Authorship, Artistry and Black Masculinity
Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) and William Wells Brown, Travels in Europe (1852) [selected excerpts]
Reconstruction, Discrimination, and 'Living While Black'
Ida B. Wells The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Campaigner. (new ed. 2014). [selections] To consult website: Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America.
Black Intellectual Traditions, Education and Uplift
Anna Julia Cooper, A Voice from the South (1892) Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery (1901) and W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903). [selected excepts]
Africa in an Atlantic Imaginary
Pauline Hopkins, Of One Blood (1902-3).
Speculative Futures: Legacies of Experiment and Literatures of Errantry in the Wake
Selected work by Derek Walcott, Robert Hayden, Douglass Kearney, M. NourbeSe Philip, Audre Lorde, Mark Dery [all provided on LEARN, but you can look all these authors up online ahead of time if you're keen, which I sincerely hope you are]
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Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2021/22, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 12 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20,
Other Study Hours 10,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
166 )
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| Additional Information (Learning and Teaching) |
1 hour per week for 11 weeks autonomous learning
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
One Coursework Essay of 2,500 words: 30%
One time-limited Final Essay of 3000 words: 60%
Class Participation Assessment: 10%
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| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
| Ability to apply a theoretical literary model across disparate texts. Increased knowledge and understanding of transatlantic cultural formations. Enhanced understanding of 'race' as a constructed social/literary category
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Reading List
Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince (1831)
Mary Seacole, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands (1857)
William and Ellen Craft, Running A Thousand Miles (1860)
Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)
Ida B. Wells: The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Campaigner.
Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery (1901)
Pauline Hopkins, Of One Blood (1902-3).
Anna Julia Cooper, A Voice from the South (1892)
W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Patricia Malone
Tel: (0 131 6)50 8618
Email: Patricia.Malone@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Sheila Strathdee
Tel: (0131 6)50 3619
Email: S.Strathdee@ed.ac.uk |
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