Representations of London in Black and Asian British Fiction - Single View

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Type of Course	Seminar	Number	260711
Hours per week in term	2	Term	SoSe 2015
Department	Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik	Language	englisch
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application period	01.04.2015 - 10.05.2015 enrollment

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		Day	Time	Frequency	Duration	Room	Lecturer	Canceled/rescheduled on	Max. participants
	Seminar	Do	14:00 to 16:00	wöchentlich	16.04.2015 to 23.07.2015	1.22.0.39	Dr. Maier		40

Description	Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading. In this course, students will engage with the ways in which London figures in novels by Black and Asian British authors of the second and third generation. The focus will be on Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2003), Zadie Smith’s White Teeth (2000) and Diran Adebayo’s Some Kind of Black (1996). Questions that will be discussed are: How can the urban environment of London be investigated both as a material and a symbolic site? How do representations of London in these novels draw attention to issues of ethnic identity, class and gender? How does London become significant with regard to the protagonist’s identity construction? To what degree do protagonists identify with the British capital and engage (critically) with Britishness? Students are requested to read the three novels, as far as it is possible, before summer term starts. Registration: The number of participants in this BA course is limited to 40 students. Please use the Moodle course to enrol for this class. Enrolment starts on April 1, 2015 at 12 a.m. For contact: carla.maier@culture.hu-berlin.de
Certificates	Details at the beginning of the semester.

Description

Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading.

In this course, students will engage with the ways in which London figures in novels by Black and Asian British authors of the second and third generation. The focus will be on Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2003), Zadie Smith’s White Teeth (2000) and Diran Adebayo’s Some Kind of Black (1996). Questions that will be discussed are: How can the urban environment of London be investigated both as a material and a symbolic site? How do representations of London in these novels draw attention to issues of ethnic identity, class and gender? How does London become significant with regard to the protagonist’s identity construction? To what degree do protagonists identify with the British capital and engage (critically) with Britishness?
Students are requested to read the three novels, as far as it is possible, before summer term starts.
Registration:
The number of participants in this BA course is limited to 40 students. Please use the Moodle course to enrol for this class. Enrolment starts on April 1, 2015 at 12 a.m.
For contact: carla.maier@culture.hu-berlin.de

Certificates

Details at the beginning of the semester.

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