This seminar explores literary representations of the rise and the fall of the British Empire – from the perspective of both colonisers and colonised. The rapid expansion of the empire met with ambiguous responses, as our discussions will show. Studying exemplary texts, including poems such as James Thomson’s “Ode: Rule, Britannia” (1745/46), Dike-Ogu Chukwumerije’s “Mister Man, Don’t Teach Me Nonsense” (2008), Joseph Conrad’s short story “An Outpost of Progress” (1898) and Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart (1958), we will engage in close readings (based on the analytical categories from the lectures ‘Analysing and Interpreting Literary Texts’) and put to practice the theoretical concepts of Structuralism, Cultural Materialism and Postcolonial Criticism.
Please purchase: Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart.
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