MA in MODERNISM

           and modern writers

 

 

COURSES CURRENTLY OFFERED

 

 

Compulsory:

EN 5301  Modernism, Modernity and History (core)

EN 5001  Methods and Materials of Research (non-assessed, Term 1 only)

EN 5310  Dissertation in Modernism (12-15,000 words)

 

Half-unit options:

EN 5303  Yeats, Pound and Eliot: Modernism and Politics    (not offered 2005-6)

EN 5304  James Joyce: Modernism and Irish History

EN 5308  Joseph Conrad: Modernism, Colonialism, and Gender    (not offered 2005-6)

EN 5307  Virginia Woolf: Modernism and Subjectivity    (not offered 2005-6)

EN 5305  American Modernism    (Term 1, taught at IUSS)

 

Full-unit Options:

EN 5405  Contemporary Women’s Narratives and the Idea of the Self

EN 5409  Postcolonialism

EN 5408  Contemporary Londons     (not available 2005-6)

 

Additional course:  Representing the City (MA in European Literary & Cultural Studies). 

                            Please inquire if you want to take this course: availability varies.

 

 

 

The course descriptions below are for indicative purposes; minor changes may be made from year to year. 
Half-unit courses can appear in either term, depending on leave patterns and other staffing considerations.  
Final details of provision will be sent out over summer.

 

 

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Modernism, Modernity and History

 

Tutors:  Dr Tim Armstrong 

 


The aim of this course is to introduce students to debates within and on Modernism. It pursues this goal through an examination of the issues which inform the historical sense of modernity (technology, industrialization, urbanization, etc.), the aesthetic assumptions of modernist texts (eg. their attitude to form and to tradition); through an examination of commentators on modernity in the period of modernism; and through a discuission of later criticism, including issues which lead to a redefinition of the modernist canon (gender, race). We will also relate texts studied to developments in the visual arts, music, cinema.

 

The course comprises four five-week sections:  Modernism and the avante-garde; Modernity, mass culture and technology; Race, gender and primitivism; Modernism and politics. 

 

The set text is Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents, ed. Vassiliki Kolocotroni, Jane Goldman and Olga Taxidou (Edinburgh University Press, 1998).  In term 1 we will use a number of novellas by Nathanael West as examples.

 

Modernist Movements: Dada & Futurism, Imagism & Vorticism, Surrealism (manifestos, artworks, writings)

The attack on the past: May Sinclair, The Life and Death of Harriet Frean and other texts

 

The ‘Men of 1914’ and the occasion of The Waste Land

 

The Great War as Trauma

 

Science, Vitalism and the body in Bergson and others

 

Modernism and Mass Culture (Adorno, Orwell and others)

 

Krakauer/Benjamin: Modernism and City

 

Modernism and Film

 

Women and War: Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier

 

Race, Gender and Primitivism: Gertrude Stein, Three Lives; paintings by Picasso etc.

 

Anthropology and modernism

 

Harlem Renaissance: Nella Larsen, Quicksand and Passing and other writings

 

Political Debates in the 1930s

 

Modernism and Marxism

 

Modernism and Empire

 

 

Select Bibliography

 

T Armstrong  Modernism, Technology & the Body

H Baker Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance

S Benstock Women of the Left Bank

M Berman All that is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity

L Doyle Bordering on the Body: The Racial Matrix of Modern Fiction & Culture

B Fer et al  Realism, Rationalism, Surrealism: Art between the Wars

P Gilroy The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness

A Hyssen After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism

S Kern The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918

M Levenson A Genealogy of Modernism

P Nicholls  Modernisms: A Literary Guide  [recommended secondary text]

M North The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language & Twentieth-Century Literature

M Perloff The Futurist Moment:Avante-Garde, Avante-Guerre, & the Language of Rupture

B K Scott (ed)  The Gender of Modernism

 

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Yeats, Pound, Eliot : Modernism & Politics

 

Tutor: Stephen Regan


 

As well as providing an intensive study of the works of three prominent twentieth-century poets – W. B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound – this course explores the origins and achievements of literary Modernism more broadly through a critical response to its characteristic ideas and motifs. Modernism is seen not just as an unprecedented phase of technical experimentation in the arts, but as the cultural expression of a widespread sense of social and political crisis.

 

Concentrating on some of the principal volumes of Modernist poetry – The Tower, The Waste Land and The Cantos – the course considers a range of formal and aesthetic issues, including the emergence of  vers libre, but it also attends to the cultural politics of specific times and places, and raises questions of national identity, democracy and civilisation, gender and class, spiritual exhaustion and economic expansion.

 

W.B. Yeats: The Rose (1893) and The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)

               

Yeats: Responsibilities (1914) and The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)

 

Yeats: Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) and The Tower (1928)

 

Yeats: The Winding Stair (1933) and Last Poems (1939)

 

T.S. Eliot:  ‘Prufrock’ (1917)

 

T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land (1922)

 

T.S. Eliot: Four Quartets (1943) and selected criticism

 

Ezra Pound:  Mauberley  (1920)

 

Ezra Pound: The Cantos (1925-1970)

 

Select Bibliography

 

A Benjamin (ed.), The Problems of Modernity: Adorno and Benjamin

M Bernstein, The Tale of the Tribe: Ezra Pound and the Modern Verse Epic

R Bush, The Genesis of Ezra Pound’s Cantos

R Bush, T.S. Eliot: A Study in Character and Style

C Craig, Yeats, Eliot, Pound and the Politics of Poetry

S Deane, ‘Yeats and the Idea of Revolution’, in Celtic Revivals

M Ellmann, The Poetics of Impersonality: T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound

S Ellis, The English Eliot: Dream Language and Landscape in Four Quartets

R Emig, Modernism in Poetry: Motivations, Structures and Limits

D Frisby, Fragments of Modernity

M Howes, Yeats’s Nations: Gender, Class, and Irishness

H Kenner, The Pound Era

E Larrissy, Reading Twentieth-Century Poetry: The Language of Gender and Objects

J Longenbach, Modernist Poetics of History

M North, The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot and Pound

C Ricks, T.S. Eliot and Prejudice

E Said, ‘Yeats and Decolonization’, in Culture and Imperialism

S Smith, Inviolable Voice: History and Twentieth-Century Poetry

S Smith, The Origins of Modernism: Eliot, Pound, Yeats and the Rhetorics of Renewal

M Tratner, Modernism and Mass Politics: Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, Yeats

H Underhill, The Problem of Consciousness in Modern Poetry

R Williams, The Politics of Modernism

 

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James Joyce : Modernism and Irish History

 

Tutor: Andrew Gibson or  Steven Morrison or Robert Hampson

 


The principal objective of this course will be to provide students with a detailed familiarity with the major work of the most eminent modernist of the century writing in English. There will be a good deal of emphasis on placing Joyce’s work in a particular (Irish) historical and cultural context  But students will also be asked to familiarize themselves with the history and range of previous Joyce criticism, and will be encouraged to develop their own approaches. Classes will focus on Joyce’s most important texts, particularly on Ulysses, and the close reading of particular passages will constitute a large part of the seminar’s work. Students should purchase Penguin editions of texts studied. Please use the edition of Ulysses ed. H W Gabler. 

 

Anatomy of a Colonial Culture: Dubliners

 

Art and Liberation in Ireland: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

 

Irish History as ‘Nightmare’: Ulysses chs. 1-3, 9

 

Bloom in Contemporary Ireland:: chs. 4-8

 

Micropolitics in Dublin: Ulysses chs. 10-11

 

Literature/Colonialism: Ulysses chs.12-14

 

The Carnivalization of Ulysses: ch. 15

 

Language, science, cultural politics: Ulysses chs.16-17

 

Joyce, Women and Ireland: Ulysses ch. 18

 

Finnegans Wake and the Irish Free State

 

 

Select Bibliography

 

S Deane Celtic Revivals

R Foster Modern Ireland 1600-1972

F Lyons Culture and Anarchy in Ireland 1880-1939

M Beja (ed) James Joyce: Dubliners and A Portrait: A Casebook

D Cairns & S Richards Writing Ireland

V Cheng Joyce, Race and Empire

E Duffy, The Subaltern Ulysses

R Ellmann James Joyce; Ulysses on the Liffey;  The Consciousness of Joyce

W Empson ‘Joyce’s Intentions’, in Using Biography

J Fairhall James Joyce and the Question of History

A Gibson, (ed) Reading Joyce’s ‘Circe’; and (ed) Joyce’s ‘Ithaca’

D Gifford Joyce Annotated: Notes for Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist

D Gifford and R J Seidman Ulysses Annotated

C Hart and D Hayman (eds) James Joyce’s Ulysses

C Herr Joyce’s Anatomy of Culture

P Herring Joyce’s Uncertainty Principle

T Hofheinz James Joyce and the Invention of Irish History

U Kumar The Joycean Labyrinth

H Kenner ‘Ulysses’;  Joyce’s Voices

K Lawrence The Odyssey of Style in ‘Ulysses’

E Nolan James Joyce and Nationalism

M Norris Joyce’s Web

P Parrinder, James Joyce

L Platt, Joyce and the Anglo-Irish

J P Riquelme Teller and Tale in Joyce’s Fiction

F Senn Joyce’s Dislocutions

R Spoo James Joyce & the Language of History

M Tymoczko The Irish ‘Ulysses’

K Wales, The Language of James Joyce

 

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Joseph Conrad : Modernism, Colonialism and Gender

Tutor:  Robert Hampson

 

The course examines a range of novels and short stories that engage with colonialism, race and gender from various perspectives. It begins with responses to imperialism in early and middle-period Conrad. It then moves to Conrad’s treatment of the metropolis in his late novels. Throughout attention will be paid to Conrad’s treatment of race and gender in these different contexts.  The last part of the course will look at the work of Conrad’s friend and collaborator, Ford Madox Ford. It will consider the ideas about the form of the novel that Conrad and Ford developed together, and it will use Ford’s work as a comparison to Conrad’s. It will consider Ford’s  representation of war and the way war challenges social values and, in particular, constructions of gender.  Week-by-week the texts are:

 

Conrad, Heart of Darkness

 

Conrad, ‘An Outpost of Progress’ / ‘Karain’

 

Conrad, Almayer’s Folly

 

Conrad, Lord Jim or Nostromo

 

Conrad, ‘The Informer’ and ‘Il Conde’ (A Set of Six)

 

Conrad, The Secret Agent

 

Conrad, Chance or Victory

 

Ford, The Good Soldier

 

Ford, Parade’s End (I)

 

Ford, Parade’s End (II)

 

 

Select Bibliography

 

 

a) Joseph Conrad

 

Linda Dryden, Joseph Conrad and the Imperial Romance (2000).

Aaron Fogel, Coercion to Speak: Conrad’s Poetics of Dialogue (1985).

Andrew Gibson and Robert Hampson, Conrad and Theory (1998).

Robert Hampson, Joseph Conrad: Betrayal and Identity (1992).

Robert Hampson, Cross-Cultural Encounters in Conrad’s Malay Fiction (2000).

Jeremy Hawthorn, Joseph Conrad: Narrative Technique and Ideological Commitment (1990).

Bruce Henricksen, Nomadic Voices: Conrad and the Subject of Narrative (1992).

Susan Jones, Conrad and Women (1999).

Jakob Lothe, Conrad’s Narrative Method (1989).

Andrew Michael Roberts (ed.), Conrad and Gender (1993).

Andrew Michael Roberts, Conrad and Masculinity (2000).

J H Stape, The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad  (1997).

Andrea White, Joseph Conrad and the Adventure Tradition (1993).

 

b) Ford Madox Ford

 

Richard A Cassell (ed.), Ford Madox Ford: Modern Judgements (1972).

Richard W Lid, Ford Madox Ford - The Essence of His Art (1964).

John A Meixner, Ford Madox Ford’s Novels: A Critical Study (1962).

Ann Barr Snitow, Ford Madox Ford and the Voice of Uncertainty (1984).

 

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Virginia Woolf : Modernism and Subjectivity

 

Tutor: Betty Jay

 


The course aims to explore a range of Woolf’s writings, including a selection of her essays and her major novels. The primary texts will enable a focus on Woolf’s experimentation with language and form, and well as a discussion of question of feminism and psychoanalysis intrinsic to the depiction of subjectivity in her work. The primary reading will be supplemented by study of a number of critical and theoretical responses to Woolf, which will lead students to a consideration of her place in Modernism.

 

 

‘The Mark on the Wall’ (1917) and ‘Modern Fiction’ (1919)

 

‘An Unwritten Novel’ (1920) and Jacob’s Room (1922)

 

‘Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown’ (1924) and ‘O Being Ill’ (1926)

 

Mrs Dalloway (1925)

 

To The Lighthouse (1927)

 

Orlando (1928)

 

A Room of One’s Own (1929)

 

The Waves (1937)

 

The Years

 

 

Select Bibliography

 

E Abel, Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis

E Barrett and P Cramer, Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings

R Bowlby, Virginia Woolf: Feminist Destinations

L Brosnan, Reading Virginia Woolf’s Essays and Journalism

P L Caughie, Virginia Woolf and Postmodernism

D Dowling, Mrs Dalloway: Mapping Streams of Consciousness

D Ferrer, Virginia Woolf and the Madness of Language

S Gilbert and S Gubar, The Female Imagination and the Modernist Aesthetic

M Hirsch, The Mother/Daughter Plot: Narrative, Psychoanalysis, Feminism

K Kitsi-Mitakou, Feminist Readings of the Body in Virginia Woolf’s Novels

J Marcus, Virginia Woolf and the Languages of Patriarchy

 

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American Modernism  

 

Tutor: Tim Armstrong

 


This Course is taught as part of the MA in American Studies at the Institute for United States Studies, Senate House, Bloomsbury. The course aims to give a selective overview of American literature (focussing mainly on fiction) in the twentieth century, and to provide students with an insight into the main preoccupations of that literature.

 

With the Armoury Show in 1913, and the arrival of Duchamp and Mina Loy in America, European Modernism had arrived, sending its shock waves through all the arts, and producing a demand for new art forms to match the new and largely urban world of speed, technology and relativity. In the work of William Carlos Williams and others, modernism was given a pragmatic, American slant; in the 1930s Surrealism had a major impact. The course deals with the arrival of modernism in America, but it also considers what could be seen as the distinctively American contribution of the Harlem Renaissance and the ‘Jazz Age’, as well as other issues including the relationship between literature and politics in the 1930s. A number of films will be studied, alongside the novels, poetry, plays and essays which form the core of the course. 

 

It is taught in 24 two-hour seminar classes (or 12 classes in the case of students taking either half as a one-term option). Each student will be expected to give at least one seminar presentation each term. The course is assessed by one essay of up to 7,000 word.

 

Introduction: Carl Sandberg, Chicago Poems (1916)

 

Immigration and pastoral:  Willa Cather, My Ántonia (1918, various eds.); Randolph Bourne, ‘Trans-national America’ (essay, handout)

 

Responses to the Machine Age: Henry Adams, ‘The Dynamo and the Virgin’ (1900, essay); Sophie Treadwell, Machinal (1929, play); and Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times (film)

 

Early American Modernism: William Carlos Williams, Spring and All; Mina Loy and Wallace Stevens, poems from the journal Others (handout); Gertrude Stein, prose (handout)

 

The double self and the colour line: Jean Toomer, Cane (1923, Norton)

 

High and Low culture in the ‘Jazz Age’:  blues, ragtime, jazz; Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer and poetry by Langston Hughes and others

 

Modernism & consciousness:  William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (1930)

 

Politics & the individual story:  John Dos Passos, The 42nd Parallel  [vol.1 of U.S.A.] (1932)

 

Modernism and Surrealism:  Djuna Barnes, Nightwood (1937, Faber & Faber)

 

Mass culture: Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust (1939) and the films of Buzby Berkeley

 

Modernity, politics and ‘race’:  Richard Wright, Native Son (1940)

 

 

Preliminary Secondary Reading

 

Malcolm Bradbury, The Modern American Novel, rev. ed.

Ann Douglas, Terrible Honesty: Mongerel Manhattan in the 1920s

Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness

Brian Lee, American Fiction, 1865-1940

Douglas Tallack, Twentieth Century America: The Intellectual and Cultural Context

Steven Watson, Strange Bedfellows: The First American Avante-Garde

 

IT and bibliographical resources: MA students in literature should familiarize themselves with the main journals in the area (held in Senate House) and with appropriate bibliographical tools, including the MLA Bibliography, BIDS, internet etc.

 

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Postmodern Poetry          

 

Tutors: Robert Hampson

 

The poetry course is concerned with ‘linguistically innovative poetry’ / poetry of the signifier and with the development of an urban poetic within this area of poetic production.  London and New York are the particular urban locations.  Comparison is also made with other art forms.  The course is designed to draw upon, and interact with, the theoretical reading undertaken for the core course.

 

The resources for the poetry course are the RHUL College Library, the University of London Library, the Poetry Library in the Royal Festival Hall, the Small Press Collection at University College, and xeroxed material provided by the course teacher. The following anthologies are also useful: Maggie O’Sullivan (ed.), Out of Everywhere (Reality Street, 1997); Iain Sinclair (ed.), Conductors of Chaos (Picador 1997); Clive Bush (ed.), Worlds of New Measure (Talus Editions, 1997)

 

 

Introduction (Roy Fisher,  surrealism, the post-Poundian tradition; urban poetics)

 

New York School: Frank O’Hara and others; Barbara Guest

 

Lee Harwood; Allen Fisher

 

Parataxis and Narrative (Perelman and Hejinian)

 

Bruce Andrews; Denise Riley

 

Out of Everywhere (O’Sullivan,  Bergvall)

 

Theoretical texts by LANGUAGE poets and/or linguistically innovative women poets

 

 

Select Bibliography

 

C Bernstein (ed)  The Politics of Poetic Form: Poetry and Public Policy

C Bush  Out of Dissent: A study of five contemporary British Poets

R Hampson & P Barry (eds)  New British poetries: The Scope of the Possible

B Perelman  The Marginalization of Poetry


 

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Contemporary Women’s Narratives
                           
and the Idea of the Self

Tutor: Betty Jay

 


The aim of this course is to introduce students to a range of twentieth-century novels by women which emphasise the construction and development of the subject. Including work by British and American writers, the course covers the period from 1933 to 1987. Issues relating to history, religion, gender and race are central to these texts. The texts studied  enable discussion of the strategies writers adopt in order to represent and also interrogate the relationship between identity and culture.

 

The course is divided into four blocks: the Bildungsroman, which explores the passage from childhood and adolescence to maturity; Divided Selves, which considers the disintegration of subjectivity; African-American writing, and an exploration of texts in which individual and collective trauma is negotiated; Postmodern Selves, including an examination of new models for subjectivity.

 

Spirituality and Sexuality: Antonia White,  Frost in May

 

Carson McCullers,  Member of the Wedding

 

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

 

Jeanette Winterson, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit

Counter-Canonical Subjects: Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

 

Writing Madness: Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

 

Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil

 

Alice Walker, Possessing the Secret of Joy

Alice Walker, The Color Purple

 

Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

 

Invented Genealogies: Angela Carter, Wise Children

Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Childhood Among Ghosts

 

Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine

Identity/ Myth: Winterson, Sexing the Cherry

 

 

Select Bibliography

 

Changing the Story: Feminist Fiction and the Tradition

Elizabeth Abel (ed)  Writing and Sexual Difference

Margaret  Ezell Writing Women’s Literary History

Jane Gallop  Feminism and Psychoanalysis: The Daughter’s Seduction

bell hooks  Black Looks: Race and Representation and Yearning: race, gender, and cultural politics

Karla Jay and Joanne Glasgow (eds)  Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revision

Linda Kauffman (ed)  American Feminist Thought at Century’s End

Deirdre Lashgari (ed)  Violence, Silence,& Anger: Women’s Writing as Transgression

Moira Monteith (ed)  Women’s Writing: A Challenge to Theory

Sally Munt (ed)  New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Reading

Ann Rutherford et al.  Into the Nineties: Post-Colonial Women’s Writing

Gina Wisker  It’s My Party: Reading Twentieth-Century Women’s Writing

Jean Wyatt  Reconstructing Desire: the Role of the Unconscious in Women’s Reading and Writing

Patricia Yaeger  Honey-mad Women: Emancipatory Strategies in Women’s Writing

Bonnie Zimmerman  The Safe Sea of Women: Lesbian Fiction


 

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Contemporary Londons     NOT AVAILABLE this year

 

Tutor: Andrew Gibson (currently on two-year Leverhulme grant)

 


The object of this course is to introduce students to a specific range of contemporary representations of London, its history and geography.  In doing so, it takes in both specific aspects of contemporary London literature and culture and elements of postmodern geography relating to the representation and analysis of urban experience. 

 

The course comprises five sections: weeks 1-3, historical discourses; weeks 4-6, theorists of the city; weeks 7-9, work on London; weeks 9-16, novels; 17-20, popular culture.

 

The course is taught at the central London site (Bedford Square, Bloomsbury).

 

Christopher Hibbert, London: A Biography

 

Francis Shepherd, London: A History

 

Roy Porter, London: A Social History

 

Henri Lefebrve, The Production of Space

 

Michel de Certeau, ‘Walking in the City’ (in The Practice of Everyday Life)

 

Susan Bucks-Morss, The Dalectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project

 

David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity

 

Doreen Massey, ‘A Global Sense of Place’; ‘Places and their Pasts’

 

Felix Driver and David Gilbert, Imperial Cities

 

Jane Jacobs, Edge of Empire: Postcolonialism and the City

 

Peter Ackroyd, Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem

 

Iain Sinclair, Lights Out for the Territory

 

Michael Moorcock, Mother London

 

Zadie Smith, White Teeth

 

Timothy Mo, Sweet Sour

 

Hanif Kureshi, The Buddha of Suburbia

 

Samuel Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

 

Popular culture (no syllabus, student choice among a range of materials)

 

 

Select Bibliography

 

T Barker & A Sutcliffe (eds), Megapolis: The Giant City in History

D Feldman and G S Jones (eds), Metropolis London: Histories and Representations

S Humphries & J Taylor, The Making of Modern London 1945-85

G Benko & U Strohmeyer, Space and Social Theory: Interpreting Modernity and Hypermodernity

M Crang, Cultural Geography

J Hall, Metropolis Now

J Hoggart & D Green, London: A New Metropolitan Geography

R Silverstone (ed), Visions of Suburbia

B Jarvis, Postmodern Cartographies

R Lehan, The City in Literature

R Legates and F Stout (eds), The City Reader

D Clark (ed), The Cinematic City

 

         

         

Postcolonialism

 

Tutor: Professor Elleke Bohemer            Full Unit

 

 


This course aims to explore some of the key issues and debates in the broadly ramifying fields of postcolonial writing, theory and criticism.  The first term will investigate leading approaches and topics in the area, ranging from passive resistance and  subalternity to mimicry and transnationalism.  We will focus in particular on how postcolonial activism has shaped theory.  In the second term we will be looking in more detail at these approaches through the lenses of two issues which impact on our postcolonial times: migration, and terror.

 

 

FIRST TERM: Postcolonial writing and theory

 

Week one:

M.K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj, ed. A.J. Parel (Cambridge)

Sister Nivedita, Aggressive Hinduism  (extracts)

Aurobindo, The Doctrine of Passive Resistance

 

Week two:

Steve Biko, I write what I like (Heinemann)

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (Penguin)

 

Week three:

Frantz Fanon, Black skin, White Masks (Pluto)

Bessie Head, A Question of Power (Heinemann)

 

Week four:

Edward Said, Orientalism (extracts)

Tayib Salih, Season of Migration to the North (Penguin)

 

Week five:

Neil Lazarus, from Nationalism and Cultural Practice (Cambridge)

Nadine Gordimer, Jump and other Stories (Bloomsbury)

 

Week six:

Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincialising Europe (Princeton)

Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic (Verso)

 

Week seven:

Amitav Ghosh, In an Antique Land (Granta)

 

Week eight:

Gayatri Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason (extracts)

 

J.M. Coetzee, Foe (Penguin)

 

Week nine:

Benita Parry, extracts from Postcolonial Studies: A Materialist Critique

Rudyard Kipling, ‘Lispeth’, Plain Tales from the Hills

 

Week Ten:

Stuart Hall, ‘Culture and Diaspora’ and ‘What is this “black” in black popular culture?’

Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture (Routledge)

 

SECOND TERM: Migration and Terror

 

Week One:

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners (Longman)

 

Week Two:

Hanif Kureishi, My Ear at his Heart: Reading my Father (Faber)

 

Week Three:

Salman Rushdie, The Moor’s Last Sigh (Vintage)

 

Week Four:

Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)

 

Week Five:

Andrea Levy, Small Island (Random House)

 

Week Six:

Ngugi, Matigari (Heinemann)

 

Week Seven:

V.S. Naipaul, Guerrillas (Penguin)

 

Week Eight:

Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (Bloomsbury)

 

Week Nine:

Doris Lessing, The Good Terrorist (Vintage)

 

Week Ten:

Gillian Slovo, Every Secret Thing (Abacus)

 

 

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