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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.
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AFTERLIVES: THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST
Semester 1
