Undergraduate Course: The Black Atlantic (ENLI10183)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | A study of racial discourse in American and British literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. In particular, the role of 'race' in constructions of modernity and identity will be evaluated. |
| Course description |
Seminar Schedule
(Please kindly note the readings are either short full-length texts or selected excerpts from longer works)
Week
1. The Real Thing: Mapping the Black Atlantic in Early Literature and Visual Culture: Race, Representation and Resistance: African Atlantic Narratives of Slavery and Freedom in UK and US Broadsides:
Josiah Wedgwood, Am I Not a Man and a Brother (Stafford, 1787); Slave Ship Brooks (Liverpool, 1788); John Comber, A Poor African (London,1861). [all hand-outs supplied]
2. Loophole of Retreat: Tracing Transatlantic Black Womanist Literary Paradigms Part I:
Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince (1831); Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands (1857). [selected excerpts]
3. Women and Sisters: Tracing Transatlantic Black Womanist Literary Paradigms Part II:
T. C. Upham, Narrative of Phebe Ann Jacobs, 1850; John Hawkins Simpson, The True Story of Dinah, An Escaped Plantation Slave (1863).
[available online at Documenting the American South]
4. Men and Brothers: African Atlantic Slave Narratives Published in the UK:
Benjamin Compton Chisley, A Short Narrative (1851); John Brown, Untitled Manuscript Narrative (1854); William and Ellen Craft, Running A Thousand Miles (1860); James Johnson, The Life of the Late James Johnson (1877). [selected excerpts; handouts supplied]
5. No Right to be a Hero: African Atlantic Acts and Arts of Revolution and Resistance: Toussaint Louverture, Sengbe Pieh and Harriet Tubman:
John Barber, A History of the Amistad (1840); William Wells Brown, St. Domingo (1855); Sarah Bradford, Harriet, the Moses of Her People (1869). ).
[available online at Documenting the American South] [selected excerpts]
6. No Classes - Flexible Learning Week
7. Authorship, Artistry and Black Masculinity:
William Wells Brown, Travels in Europe (1852) and Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855). [selected excerpts]
8. Transatlantic Anti-Lynching Activism:
Ida B. Wells: The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Campaigner. (new ed. 2014). [selections]
To consult website: Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America.
9. Essay completion; no class.
10. Race Relations and the Search for a Diasporic Utopia:
Sutton E. Griggs, Imperium in Imperio (1899) and Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery (1901). [selected excerpts]
11. Africa in an Atlantic Imaginary:
Pauline Hopkins, Of One Blood (1902-3).
12. Black Intellectual Traditions, Education and Uplift:
Anna Julia Cooper, A Voice from the South (1892) and W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903). [selected excepts]
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Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2019/20, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 12 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 22,
Other Study Hours 12,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
162 )
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| Additional Information (Learning and Teaching) |
1 hour per week for 11 weeks autonomous learning
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
60 %,
Coursework
40 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
One Coursework Essay of 2,500 words: 30%
One time-limited Final Essay of 3000 words: 60%
Class Participation Assessment: 10%
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| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
| Ability to apply a theoretical literary model across disparate texts. Increased knowledge and understanding of transatlantic cultural formations. Enhanced understanding of 'race' as a constructed social/literary category
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Additional Information
| Course URL |
https://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/english-literature/undergraduate/current/honours |
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Special Arrangements |
Numbers are limited and students taking degrees not involving English or Scottish literature need the written approval of the head of English Literature |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
Seminar: 2 hours a week for 10 weeks
plus 1 hour per week for 10 weeks: autonomous learning group at times to be arranged. |
| Keywords | ENLI10183 Black Atlantic |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Alexandra Campbell
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Course secretary | Miss Helene Thomsen
Tel: (0131 6)50 3618
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