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This course allows for a close examination of the Caribbean's creole identity by assessing Caribbean literary and cultural works from the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Film, music, religion, literature, and food will be explored to specifically examine the influence of slavery on Caribbean culture.

1 x 2hr seminar per week over 10 weeks as scheduled on MyCampus.

This is one of the MLitt options in English Literature and MSc in Reparatory Justice and may not run every year. The options that are running this session are available on MyCampus and may have some virtual attendees.

Registration on the MLitt English Literature programme or the MSc in Reparatory Justice and by arrangement to visiting students or students of other MLitt programmes.

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Coursework:

1 x Essay Prospectus & Annotated Bibliography (1500 words) - 25%

1 x Final Essay (3000 words) - 50%

Seminar Presentation (5 mins) - 15%

Seminar Contribution - 10%

No reassessment possible for seminar contribution.

Should students choose to be reassessed in the essay but not the prospectus, a meeting will be arranged to mirror the feedback on the prospectus.

Reassessments are normally available for all courses, except those which contribute to the Honours classification. Where, exceptionally, reassessment on Honours courses is required to satisfy professional/accreditation requirements, only the overall course grade achieved at the first attempt will contribute to the Honours classification. For non-Honours courses, students are offered reassessment in all or any of the components of assessment if the satisfactory (threshold) grade for the overall course is not achieved at the first attempt. This is normally grade D3 for undergraduate students and grade C3 for postgraduate students. Exceptionally it may not be possible to offer reassessment of some coursework items, in which case the mark achieved at the first attempt will be counted towards the final course grade. Any such exceptions for this course are described below. 

This course aims to:

■ Introduce students to a variety of Caribbean texts across multiple genres.

■ Assess social categories like identity, class, race, and migration.

■ Examine history, culture, and geography to contextualise the Caribbean as a creole space.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ Recognise the importance of historically contextualizing Caribbean texts

■ Identify the socio-historical context of key themes, like identity, race, class, migration.

■ Analyse how slavery has influenced Caribbean creative and intellectual productions.

■ Assess texts across distinct genres and forms.

■ Use scholarly discourse to understand cultural texts.

■ Examine the meaning and formal qualities of individual texts and groups of texts in presentations and in written assessments.

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.