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Great Britain: From Island to Empire and back
Great Britain: From Island to Empire and back
Dette forløb ser på Storbritannien af i dag med særligt fokus på britisk identitet og hvem den kan indeholde.
TEXTS/MATERIAL:
Riz Ahmed, Short film: The Long Goodbye
Andrea Levy, essay: This is my England
BBC: The Windrush Generation; documentary: The Unwanted, The secret Windrush Files. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_rzJTNZSLM
short story Khustwant Singh: Karma (1950) In: Worlds of English, 2010, Systime, page 178ff
Article: Kehinde Andrews: "Colonial Nostalgia is Back in Fashion, Blinding us to the Horrors of Empire"
Article: Niall Ferguson: "How Britain Made the Modern World"
Poems:
Britain's National Anthem, In: Worlds of English, 2010, Systime, page 33
Rudyard Kipling: White Man's Burden, 1899, In: Worlds of English, 2010, Systime, page 35
Ruperake Petaia, "Kidnapped", 1980. In: Worlds of English, 2010, Systime, page 60
John Agard, "Listen Mr. Oxford Don", 1985, page 69
FOCUSES / TERMS :
Consequences of Empire
Post Colonial Voices
Imperial cost and implication
Waves of influx: Immigration from colonies.
Windrush Generation
Belonging or feeling displaced
The Jewel of the Crown: India
Commonwealth
Lingua Franca
decolonization
Post-colonialism and Orientalism as terms.
Colonial Nostalgia
Eurocentrism
Present day Britain
Brexit
India:
Jinnah; Muslim League vs Nehru: United India.
The Jewel, Mountbatten, The Raj, Queen Victoria, Victorian Age.
Gandhi, The Indian National Congress (INC)
decolonization and struggles = civil war, Muslims + Hindu > Pakistan / Bangladesh
SUPPLERENDE:
Documentary: A Taste of Power. Jeremy Paxman, BBC (2017): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdDzYregUQg
Lingua Franca:
Podcast: engelsk i Indien. (versionsøvelse af koncept)
Clip from Documentary: The Day India Burned (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8dcjRBCbLs&t=585s) )(first 25 minutes)
video: Shashi Tharoor, debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaNotcGak3Y&t=303s
video: Shashi Tharoor: interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1giYXrofZYo
Thematics presentations students' choices of themes - rounding off the theme.
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