A mid-semester essay length 2,000 weighted at 40% [Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4]

An end of semester essay length 3,000 words weighted at 60% [Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4]

Key Information Set Data:
100% Coursework

This module deals with postcolonial literature and theory. The legacy of imperialism in (ex-)colonised cultures is fundamental to our study, but the main focus here is the role that literature and culture can play in resisting that legacy and helping in the construction of new, 'postcolonial' identities. We will focus upon a variety of (ex-)colonial contexts and literatures in order to examine both this issue and also, in turn, the problems posed to these 'national identities' by factors such as class, gender and migrancy. Primary texts may include works such as:
Frantz Fanon, Black Skins, White Masks
Albert Camus, Exile and the Kingdom
Brian Friel, Translations
Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love

Delivery is by small group tutorials and seminars at the start of teaching block 3, and through VLE for the remainder of the semester.

Key Information Set Data:
3.3% scheduled learning and teaching activities
96.7% guided independent learning

PC Projector,
Video,
Library,
Internet
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available (where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.

Secondary critical and theoretical works will be selected from a 'reader' such as:
Ashcroft et al (eds) (2006) The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. 2nd edition. London: Routledge.

1. DEMONSTRATE KNOWLEDGE OF KEY ISSUES AND AN ABILITY TO PARTICIPATE IN KEY DEBATES AROUND POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE.
[Cultural Enquiry]
[Knowledge and Understanding]

2. DEMONSTRATE SKILLS OF TEXTUAL ANALYSIS AND AN ABILITY TO CONSTRUCT A COHERENT ARGUMENT IN RELATION TO THE LITERARY TEXTS OF TWO WRITERS FROM THE MODULE.
[Analysis]

3. EVALUATE AND APPLY SECONDARY, THEORETICAL MATERIAL.
[Analysis]
[Problem Solving]

4. DRAW CONNECTIONS AND CONTRASTS ACROSS AT LEAST TWO DIFFERENT CULTURAL CONTEXTS. [Problem Solving]

5. COMMUNICATE AN ARGUMENT CLEARLY, PRECISELY AND ACCURATELY IN WRITING.
[Communication]