ESH7070
From the Postcolonial to the Global: Literature and Theory
Level 7 (30 credits)
Peripheral Modernities seeks to explore how entry to the modern world, or how exclusion from the modern world, is experienced, perceived and explained from the global peripheries. In so doing, it aims to reverse the usual perspective from which modernity itself is considered. The module opens by a conceptual consideration of how we might begin to theorize a 'peripheral' modernity. It is then followed by a range of texts which will focus (variously) on the Caribbean, South Africa/Africa, southern Asia, the Middle East and on those instances of peripheral modernities which underwrite the erstwhile metropolitan nations.
Preparing for this module and approximate costs:
There is some content covered on the programme that you may find challenging and sensitive. We do not issue content notes for individual texts (written, performance, visual, sonic etc.), but please do contact your module tutor and/or convenor and/or adviser if you have concerns or problems relating any of the content, themes or discussions.
Programme |
MA English Literature |
Learning Context |
Long Seminar |
Semester |
Semester 1 |
Assessment |
1. Essay (4000 words) 100% |
Contact |
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School of English and Drama, Queen Mary University of London
Contact: sed-information@qmul.ac.uk
Last updated on 31 May 2023 by Dylan Gambrill
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