Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Humanities and Social Science
Learning Methods
Seminar
Tutorial
Module Offerings
7102ENGLIT-JAN-MTP
Aims
Introduce theoretical and critical concepts pertaining to mobility studies, transnationalism, diaspora studies and the global humanities.
Develop students’ confidence and skills in using advanced theoretical and critical confidence to critically examine texts.
Learning Outcomes
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To examine critically a range of texts pertinent to themes of mobility, border crossing, migration and transnationalism.
2.
To engage critically with advanced contemporary critical and theoretical interventions in mobility studies, diaspora studies and the global humanities
3.
To enable students to develop a range of analytical skills which are relevant to their detailed exploration of literary texts.
4.
Demonstrate and apply detailed and informed knowledge and understanding of complex theoretical and critical concepts in mobility studies, transnationalism, diaspora studies and the global humanities through verbal and visual forms.
5.
Examine critically contemporary interventions in mobility studies, diaspora studies and the global
Humanities commensurate with study at post-graduate level.
6.
Analyse key texts integrating and evaluating relevant critical and theoretical concepts
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:This module explores literary works from a variety of periods and cultures which engage with the movement of human beings across various kinds of borders. It forms a companion to the ‘Place’ Core module in Semester One. The range of texts will allow us to explore how regimes of mobility are a response to the territorial logic that still informs our so-called era of globalisation, also addressing how human movement is conditioned by privilege. The module emphasises that international capital creates an unequal system characterised by circulations of materials, bodies, and cultures. It employs a transnational approach which notes that literature engages in the mutual construction of the local, national and global. This approach recognises the significance of national frameworks alongside the potential of literature both to reinforce and transcend them. Key concerns include the operations of and resistance to capital and empire; the stopping and crossing of human beings at various kinds of borders; exile, refugees, and diaspora; modes of travel across land, sea and air; cultural cross-currents, creolisation and entanglements.
Indicative primary texts may include: Raja Shehadeh Palestinian Walks (2007);
Abdulrazak Gurnah By The Sea (2001); Gianfranco Rosi Fire at Sea (film 2016); Vita Sackville-West, Passenger to Tehran (1926); Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988).
Module Overview:
Students studying on this module will demonstrate and apply detailed and informed knowledge and understanding of theoretical and critical concepts in mobility studies, transnationalism, diaspora studies and the global humanities through verbal and visual forms.
Students studying on this module will demonstrate and apply detailed and informed knowledge and understanding of theoretical and critical concepts in mobility studies, transnationalism, diaspora studies and the global humanities through verbal and visual forms.