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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
1 module to be chosen between the following
3rd foreign language B1 level
3
F
-

2° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2021/2022

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

3° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2022/2023

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1 module among the following (philology related to 1st or 2nd foreign language)
6
C
M-FIL/04
1 module between the following
Final exam
6
E
-
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1 module to be chosen between the following
3rd foreign language B1 level
3
F
-
activated in the A.Y. 2021/2022
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
1st foreign literature
2nd foreign literature
1 module to be chosen between the following
activated in the A.Y. 2022/2023
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1 module among the following (philology related to 1st or 2nd foreign language)
6
C
M-FIL/04
1 module between the following
Final exam
6
E
-
Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°

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Teaching code

4S002911

Coordinator

Annalisa Pes

Credits

6

Language

English en

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-LIN/10 - ENGLISH LITERATURE

Period

I semestre (Lingue e letterature straniere) dal Sep 27, 2021 al Jan 8, 2022.

Learning outcomes

The aim of the course is to provide students with:
- a basic knowledge of the history of the British Empire
- a basic knowledge of postcolonial theories.

At the end of the course students will be able to:
- discuss the selected literary texts through the critical theories introduced in the course
- discuss in English, in a clear and consistent way, the topics dealt with in the course.

Program

"Representing diasporas in Anglophone literatures"

The course will focus on two texts narrating diasporic experiences from different cultural and temporal contexts —
Bernardine Evaristo's parodic representation of the Atlantic slave trade and Andrea Levy's account of the Windrush Generation at the end of the 1940s — and on the problematic representation of the im/migrant as 'Other', through the lens of postcolonial and diaspora studies.
The course will be in English and in-presence (in line with the current University's measures to reduce the risk of local transmission of COVID).
Students will have to register for the webclass on the e-Learning platform, and check it regularly.
The syllabus will be valid until the exam session of Winter 2024.

Bibliography:
John McLeod, Beginning Postcolonialism, Manchester University Press (pref. 2^ edizione) [cap. 1, 2, 3, 7]
Bernardine Evaristo, Blonde Roots, Penguin
Andrea Levy, Small Island, Tinder Press
C. Duboin, Contested Identities: Migration Stories and Liminal Selves in Adrea Levy's 'Small Island', Obsidian Literature in the African Diaspora, Vol. 12, No. 1 (2011), pp.14-33.
Bruce Woodcock, Small Island, Crossing Cultures, Wasafiri, 23, 2, 2008, pp. 50-55
Stuart Hall, “New Ethnicities”, in Writing Black Britain 1948–1990, ed. James Procter (Manchester University Press, 2000), 265–75
Other bibliographical indications will be provided in class.

Bibliography

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Examination Methods

Oral exam.
Students will have to be able to discuss the primary and secondary texts listed in the bibliography, notes from the course, and any material provided in class (including powerpoint presentations).

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