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Module AFTERLIVES: THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST

Module code: EN6003
Credits: 15
Semester: Year-Long
Department: ENGLISH
International: No
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"‘Afterlives’ explores the intersection between literature and history, fiction and politics, by tracing that relationship synchronically and diachronically. At the synchronic level, it examines key early modern texts in the context of their own time, to study their role in shaping discourses of discovery and exploration, colonialism, slavery, nationhood, race, exclusion and inclusion, property and ownership, spatiality, gender, violence, and hierarchy – discourses which continue to shape our present. Diachronically, it analyses the enduring potency of such articulations by following the connections between these Renaissance texts and contemporary works which respond to and contest that complex inheritance. That journey takes us from early modern England and Ireland to the Caribbean, Africa, and America, North and South.  Indicative Texts:
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Sulayman Al Bassam, The Arab Shakespeare Trilogy
Federico Andahazi, El anatomista (The Anatomist)
Margaret Atwood, Hag Seed (Hogarth Shakespeare 2017).
George Best, The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher.
Captain Barlow, ‘The first voyage made to the coasts of America’ and Thomas Harriot, ‘A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia’, in Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, Vol. 8.
Bartolome De Las Casas, Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Alistair Fowler, The Country House Poem: A Cabinet of Seventeenth Century Estate Poems and Related Items
Eduardo Galeano, Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America)
Fynes Moryson, extracts from The Irish Sections of Fynes Moryson’s Unpublished Itinerary, ed. Graham Kew
Edmund Spenser, A View of the Present State of Ireland (extracts)
Thomas Tonkins, Lingua: Or the Combat of the Tongue
William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Othello, Henry V
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