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Modules - 2012/13

Numbers in brackets indicate the semester during which the module will run.

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Level 2 Modules

Level 3 Modules
- EN31006: Other Americas (1)
- EN31007: Romantic & Gothic Literature (1)
- EN31011: Post-Colonial Texts (1)
- EN31013: European Cinema (1)
- EN32001: American Literature (2)
- EN32003: Mediaeval Literature (1)
- EN32005: Modernism & Modernity (1)
- EN32006: Vision in Film & Literature (2)
- EN32008: Victorian Literature (2)
- EN32009: Contemporary Literature (1)
- EN32010: Writing as Making (2)
- EN32011: Shakespeare (2)
- EN32020: Film Art (2)
- EN32021: Introduction to Creative Writing (1)

Level 4 Modules
- EN41002: Old English Literature (1)
- EN41011: Dissertation (1 & 2)
- EN41013: Re-imagining Britain (1)
- EN41015: Crime & Detection in American Fiction (2)
- EN41016: H G Wells, Science Fiction & Film (2)
- EN41021: Making Writing Matter (2)
- EN41022: Mediaevalism at the Movies (2)
- EN41024: Comics (1)
- EN41025: Image, Text & Performance (2)
- EN42004: Literature of Terror (2)
- EN42008: Novels of Virginia Woolf (1)
- EN42010: American Modernist Poetry (1)
- EN42020: Epics, Exile & Nostalgia (1)
- HY42050: History of the Book (2)

Other Americas: Contemporary Multi-Ethnic Fiction

Module: EN31006

Convenor: Aliki Varvogli

Semester: 1, Credits: 30

This module examines a range of contemporary texts - novels, short stories, graphic novels and films - produced by Native, African, Jewish, Asian and Hispanic Americans. It deals with questions of immigration, race, ethnicity and cultural forms in the era of globalisation.

Roth

Teaching Method

Weekly 2-hour seminar.

Assessment

Two equally weighted essays.

Texts

Novels:
- Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine
- Sherman Alexie, Reservation Blues
- Percival Everett, Erasure
- Chang-rae Lee, A Gesture Life
- Philip Roth, The Plot Against America
- Dinaw Mengestu, Children of the Revolution
Film:
- Wayne Wang, Eat a Bowl of Tea
- Liev Schreiber, Everything is Illuminated
Short Stories:
- Junot Diaz, Drown

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