LFU:online

Introduction

• to the histories of the Caribbean
• to the histories of the Windrush-Generation
• British and Anglophone Caribbean Cultures and Literatures
• Post-Colonial Theories and Concepts

In 2018, the so-called Windrush scandal resulted in major protests against the current government’s immigration policies. Thousands of immigrants from the former British colonies in the Caribbean were suddenly deemed ‘illegal’. As a result, thousands lost their jobs or were deported, despite having lived in Great Britain for decades. Many of them were part of the Windrush-Generation, immigrants who arrived after 1948 in Great Britain and whose presence transformed 

In this seminar we will discuss the historical ties between Britain and the Caribbean as well as Anglo-Caribbean cultures and literatures from the perspective of authors and artists such as Sam Selvon, Una Marson, Andrea Levy, Stuart Hall, Claudia Jones, the Caribbean Artists Movement, Caryl Phillips. We will discuss different text-types, media and artforms such as monuments, novels, drama, auto-biography, painting, the Carnival and theoretical approaches to questions of race, identity, gender, and anti-racism. 

• Discussions
• In-Class Writing Tasks
• Group Work
• Use of different media, sources and resources

• Portfolio
• Term-Paper (3.500 Wörter)
• Regular Participation

Please buy the following texts:

• Selvon, Sam: The Lonely Londoners. London: Penguin, 1956, 2006.
• E.R. Braithwaite: To Sir with Love. London: Vertigo, 1959, 2005.

Additional texts and resources will be provided via OLAT and Drama Online.

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