This class will consider Black British literature from after the Second World War. While Black people have lived in the British Isles since Roman times, the 1948 British Citizenship Act which granted people from (former) colonies the right to live and work in the UK marked an increase in arrivals, especially from the Caribbean, and is often thought of as a historical turning point. Without reducing the richness of Black British life since the mid-twentieth century to the Windrush generation, we will take this event as the historical starting point for out study of Black British literature. Our central question will be how these texts negotiate the ongoing afterlives of enslavement and empire as well as questions of belonging.

Please acquire and start reading the following texts:

• Sam Selvon, Lonely Londoners (1956)
• Buchi Emecheta, Second-Class Citizen (1974)
• Andrea Levy, Small Island (2004)
• Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water (2021)

You may use any edition but please note that I require the use of a properly published copy for term papers.

Please note that this class is designed for in-person learning. See the English Department’s resolution on attendance: https://www.uni-muenster.de/Anglistik/Study/ClassAttendance.html

This class will consider Black British literature from after the Second World War. While Black people have lived in the British Isles since Roman times, the 1948 British Citizenship Act which granted people from (former) colonies the right to live and work in the UK marked an increase in arrivals, especially from the Caribbean, and is often thought of as a historical turning point. Without reducing the richness of Black British life since the mid-twentieth century to the Windrush generation, we will take this event as the historical starting point for out study of Black British literature. Our central question will be how these texts negotiate the ongoing afterlives of enslavement and empire.

Please acquire and start reading the following texts:

• Sam Selvon, Lonely Londoners (1956)
• Buchi Emecheta, Second-Class Citizen (1974)
• Andrea Levy, Small Island (2004)
• Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water (2021)

You may use any edition but please note that I require the use of a properly published copy for term papers.

Please note that this class is designed for in-person learning. See the English Department’s resolution on attendance: https://www.uni-muenster.de/Anglistik/Study/ClassAttendance.html

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