Asylum and Postcolonial Studies - Einzelansicht

Course Description

This course takes David Farrier's comment on 'the scandalous absence of the asylum seeker and refugee in postcolonial studies' as a starting point, and investigates recent attempts in postcolonial studies to attend to the material conditions of statelessness and, given the field's celebration of exile and diaspora, to the hierarchies of mobility in today’s globalised world that shape the experiences of many migrants. In the first part of the course, we will read work by scholars attempting to make asylum a focus of postcolonial studies. In the second part of the course, we will turn to asylum narratives and consider what tools from postcolonial studies we can draw on in our analysis.

The course will also feature a series of guest lectures which consider issues of forced migration in relation to children. More information on these will be made available at the beginning of the course.

A theatre trip to watch 'Asylmonologe' at the Heimathafen theatre in Neukölln, Berlin, is planned for Monday 14th May.

Please note that this course will be assessed on the basis of written assignments. No presentations - except for those students doing MA Anglophone Modernities and who do an oral presentation as part of a series of assignments.