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Laurea in Lingue e letterature straniere - Enrollment from 2025/2026

The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.

CURRICULUM TIPO:

1° Year 

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign language
9
A
L-LIN/04
9
A
L-LIN/14
9
A
L-LIN/21
9
A
L-LIN/07
2nd foreign language
9
A
L-LIN/04
9
A
L-LIN/14
9
A
L-LIN/21
9
A
L-LIN/07
1 module to be chosen among the following
3rd foreign language
3
F
-

2° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2019/2020

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
1st foreign literature
2nd foreign literature
1 module to be chosen among the following

3° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2020/2021

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign literature
2nd foreign literature
1 module among the following (philology related to 1st or 2nd foreign language)
6
C
M-FIL/04
1 module among the following
Final exam
6
E
-
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign language
9
A
L-LIN/04
9
A
L-LIN/14
9
A
L-LIN/21
9
A
L-LIN/07
2nd foreign language
9
A
L-LIN/04
9
A
L-LIN/14
9
A
L-LIN/21
9
A
L-LIN/07
1 module to be chosen among the following
3rd foreign language
3
F
-
activated in the A.Y. 2019/2020
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
1st foreign literature
2nd foreign literature
1 module to be chosen among the following
activated in the A.Y. 2020/2021
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign literature
2nd foreign literature
1 module among the following (philology related to 1st or 2nd foreign language)
6
C
M-FIL/04
1 module among the following
Final exam
6
E
-
Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°

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Teaching code

4S002911

Coordinator

Susanna Zinato

Credits

6

Language

English en

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-LIN/10 - ENGLISH LITERATURE

Period

I semestre (Lingue e letterature straniere) dal Sep 30, 2019 al Jan 11, 2020.

Learning outcomes

The course is meant to introduce students to postcolonial literature in English by reading and analysing representative critical works and literary texts. Upon the completion of this course, students will be able to:
- read postcolonial literary texts closely, with focused attention to language, content, and form, and analyze the relationship between literary texts and the particular historical, social, and cultural contexts that produced them;
- demonstrate independent critical thinking in their analysis of literary texts
- demonstrate an ability to structure ideas and arguments in a logical, sustained, and persuasive way, and to support them with precise and relevant examples.

Program

The 'heart' of the Empire interrogated by its subversive marginalities

After some classes devoted to introducing postcolonial anglophone literature, the students will be engaged in tackling the theme of the interrogation/contestation of the authority and alleged 'purity' of the imperial centre, entailing the problematization of the concepts of Enlgishness, belonging, identity. This will be done through a study of texts, set in postcolonial London, by the New Zealand author Janet Frame and by the black British fiction/screen-writer Hanif Kureishi.

A) TEXTS
-Janet Frame, The Edge of the Alphabet (1962)
-Hanif Kureishi, My Beautiful Launderette and "The Rainbow Sign" (1986)
-My Beautiful Launderette, film (1985) directed by Stephen Frears
-Hanif Kureishi, "We're not Jews", "My son the fanatic",from Love in a Blue Time (1997, Faber and Faber)

B) CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
-J. Mc Leod, Beginning Postcolonialism, Manchester UP, 2000, chapters 1 e 7.
- J.Mc Leod, Postcolonial London: Rewriting the Metropolis, Routledge, 2004: chapter 2 "London, England" pp.81-92.
-K.C. Kaleta, Hanif Kureishi, Postcolonial Storyteller, University of Texas Press, 1998, pp.39-61

NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS ARE ASKED TO INTEGRATE THE BIBLIOGRAPHY ABOVE WITH THE FOLLOWING:
-J. C. Ball, Imagining London: Postcolonial Fiction and the Transnational Metropolis, University of Toronto Press, 2006, pp-3-25.
-G. Mercer, Janet Frame: Subversive Fictions, University of Otago Press, 1994 :chapter entitled "The Edge of the Alphabet"
-B. Buchanan, Hanif Kureishi, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007: Part I (Introduction)

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
J. Mc Leod Beginning Postcolonialism Manchester UP 2000 chapters 1, 7
B. Buchanan Hanif Kureishi Palgrave Macmillan 2007 Part I (Introduction)
K. C. Kaleta Hanif Kureishi. Postcolonial Storyteller University of Texas Press 1998 pp.39-61
J.C. Ball Imagining London: Postcolonial Fiction and the Transnational Metropolis University of Toronto Press 2006 Chapter 1, pp. 3-25
Gina Mercer Janet Frame: Subversive Fictions University of Otago Press 1994 Chapter "The Edge of the Alphabet"
Hanif Kureishi Love in a Blue Time Faber and Faber 1997 Le due short stories "We're not Jews" e "My son the fanatic"
Hanif Kureishi My Beautiful Launderette and The Rainbow Sign (1986)  
J. Mc Leod Postcolonial London: Rewriting the Metropolis Routledge 2004 Chaper 2 ("London, England"): pp.81-92
Janet Frame The Edge of the Alphabet (1962)   edizione integrale/unabridged

Examination Methods

The exam will be oral, in English and will deal with the topics discussed in the course and its scheduled texts (parts A+B).
Students must have their own primary texts (A) when they sit for the exam.
Students must also have passed English Language 1 and English Literature 1 .

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE