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Wed. May 31
Introduction to ENGL/AFST 481: Course Syllabus, Class Policies, Course Description and Learning Outcomes, Assessment, Course Outline.
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Thursday, Jun. 1
- Challenging master narratives of the black presence in Britain
- Gradations of curiosity, xenophobia, slavery, imperialism, and racism - colonizing the other.
- Formations of notions/myths of Britishness; definitions of Blackness
- A Historical overview of the black presence.
Multiculturalism - a portmanteau term for anything from minority discourse to poscolonial critiqu, from gay and lesbian studies to chicano/ a fiction - has become the most charged sign for describing the scattered social contingencies that characterize contemporary Kulturkritik. The multicultural has itself become a 'floating signifier' whose enigma lies less in itself than in the discursive uses of it to mark social proceses where differentiation and condensation seem to happen almost synchronically (Homi Bhabha 1998).
Class Discussion Points
- Notions of Britishness as signifier (unitary, homogenous, racialized, cultural entity): re-inventing imaginary ethnocentric, nationalistic Britain
- Examining Britain as a constitutive multicultural scape
- Colonial/postcolonial formations and the new configurations of a multicultural Britain: belongingness and unbelongingness.
- Residual (resurgent meanings/tropes of an imperial past) and emergent (negotiating the apparition of post-imperialism) multicultural transruptions (Raymond Williams).
- The post-imperial drift: re-arranging the center; re-defining the margins
- Imaginary coherences of the margins: solidarity and difference
Read by Friday, Jun. 2 for the class session on the core issues in Black British Literature
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- Ellis, David. "The Produce of More Than One Country': Race, Identity, and Discourse in Post-Windrush Britain." The Journal of Narrative Theory 31.2 (2001) 214-232.
- Schwarz, Bill. "Unspeakable Histories: Diasporic Lives in Old England."
- Bentley, Nick. "Black London: The Politics of Representation in Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners." Wasafiri 39 (2003): 41-65.
- Doring, Tobias. "Of Maps and Moles: Cultural Negotiations with the London Tube." Anglia 120.1 (2002): 30-64.
- Mair, Christian. "Language, Code, and Symbol: The Changing Roles of Jamaican Creole in Diaspora Communities." AAA, Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 28.2 (2003): 231-248.
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Friday, June 2
The Black Presence in Post-Windrush Britain
Some Web Links
BBC's Black British Literature since Windrush - By Onyekachi Wambu
Migration Histories - Moving Here
Class Discussion Points
- Colonial/postcolonial formations and the new configurations of a multicultural Britain: belongingness and unbelongingness.
- The post-imperial drift: Re-arranging the center - discoveries of the truth about the paradigmatic center; re-makings of colonial discourse (Said, Bhabha, Gikandi & Stein)
- Ironies of identity: Caliban unfettered ("representation of the subject in differentiating orders of otherness" - Bhabha Culture); or convergent identities - subversion, dislocation or marginalization
- Creolization and marginalized Englishes: language as counter discourse
- Recasting the City: Black London as trope (See Looker 60)
- The white gaze, ironic self-refllection, and the realities of "exile"
Readings for Monday, June 5.
For people doing the class presentations: please use the interviews that are part of the print package and the others in electronic format.
The class packet is from the following critical works on Sam Selvon's work.
- Wyke, Clement. Sam Selvon's Dialectal Style and Fictional Strategy. Vancouver, British Columbia: University of British Columbia Press, 1991.
- Looker, Mark. Atlantic Passages: History, Community, and Language in the Fiction of Sam Selvon. New York: Peter Lang, 1996.
- Joseph, Margaret Paul. Caliban in Exile: The Outsider in Caribbean Fiction. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.
- Jussawalla, Feroza and Reed Dasenbrock. Interviews with Writers of the Post-Colonial World. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1992.
- Nasta, Susheila and Anna Rutherford. Tiger's Triumph: Celebrating Sam Selvon. London: Dangaroo Press, 1995.
Also available in electronic format are the following:
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Monday, June 5
Sam Selvon: The Lonely Londoners
Class Discussion Points
Readings for Tuesday, June 6.
For people doing the class presentations: please use the interviews that are part of the print package and the others in electronic format.
The class packet is from the following critical works on Sam Selvon's work.
- Wyke, Clement. Sam Selvon's Dialectal Style and Fictional Strategy. Vancouver, British Columbia: University of British Columbia Press, 1991.
- Looker, Mark. Atlantic Passages: History, Community, and Language in the Fiction of Sam Selvon. New York: Peter Lang, 1996.
- Joseph, Margaret Paul. Caliban in Exile: The Outsider in Caribbean Fiction. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.
- Jussawalla, Feroza and Reed Dasenbrock. Interviews with Writers of the Post-Colonial World. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1992.
- Nasta, Susheila and Anna Rutherford. Tiger's Triumph: Celebrating Sam Selvon. London: Dangaroo Press, 1995.
Also available in electronic format are the following:
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Tuesday, June 6
Sam Selvon: The Lonely Londoners
Class Discussion Points for June 6 & June 7
Assignment Update: See the assignments link. Do not forget to print and attach the accompanying feedback sheet to your assignment.
- Colonial/postcolonial formations and the new configurations of a multicultural Britain: belongingness and unbelongingness.
- The post-imperial drift: Re-arranging the center - discoveries of the truth about the paradigmatic center; re-makings of colonial discourse (Said, Bhabha, Gikandi & Stein)
- Ironies of identity: Caliban unfettered ("representation of the subject in differentiating orders of otherness" - Bhabha Culture); or convergent identities - subversion, dislocation or marginalization
- Creolization and marginalized Englishes: language as counter discourse
- Recasting the City: Black London as trope (See Looker 60)
- The white gaze, ironic self-refllection, and the realities of "exile"
- We will round up discussions on Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners by focusing on literary creolization and creolization as cultural syncretism. We will talk discuss why this is significant for Sam Selvon's style. Read the Ramchand, Wyke, Nasta articles and see the Sam Selvon interviews especially before this discussion. Think about the Calypso party at St. Pancras Hall especially - spatial creolization?
- How central is Calypso (part social commentary, part protest, part creative voice that is constantly altering and refashioning itself) as a trope for understanding the delineation of migrant London? How important is it for Selvon's rendering of London and the migrants?
Readings and links for Thursday, June 8.
In case presenters would like to contact Diran Adebayo directly, send him an e-mail and please mention my name & the course. Diran Adebayo's Email address: dizzy@diran.freeserve.co.uk
Some web links on Diran Adebayo
Radio Interviews (Real player needed. If realplayer is not installed on your computer, you may install the player from the navigation panel to the left.)
- The problems with writing about minority communities. The novelist Diran Adebayo and the playwright and actor Kwame Kwei Armah. Today. BBC Radio Four. December 5, 2003.
- Listen to Rachel Cusk's interview with Diran Adebayo and other writers on how their mothers feature in their writing. Writing Mothers into their texts. Forward to 1:20 min. Open Book BBC Radio Four. March 30, 2003.
- "When you're a minority artist you do tend to suffer from the burden of representation" ( 5 Dec 2003) Interview with Diran Adebayo.
- What resonance does the image of the white man in Africa have today? Writers Giles Foden and Diran Adebayo discuss. Listen to Diran Adebayo. 15 Jan. 2005. BBC Radio Four.
Some Articles by Diran Adebayo
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Wednesday, June 7
Sam Selvon: The Lonely Londoners
Class Discussion Points for June 7
Assignment Update: See the assignments link. Do not forget to print and attach the accompanying feedback sheet to your assignment.
Presentation by Mehmet, Marlis, and Jason - Key issues in The Lonely Londoners. Also, see the seminars archive.
- Colonial/postcolonial formations and the new configurations of a multicultural Britain: belongingness and unbelongingness.
- The post-imperial drift: Re-arranging the center - discoveries of the truth about the paradigmatic center; re-makings of colonial discourse (Said, Bhabha, Gikandi & Stein)
- Ironies of identity: Caliban unfettered ("representation of the subject in differentiating orders of otherness" - Bhabha Culture); or convergent identities - subversion, dislocation or marginalization
- Creolization and marginalized Englishes: language as counter discourse
- Recasting the City: Black London as trope (See Looker 60)
- The white gaze, ironic self-refllection, and the realities of "exile"
- We will round up discussions on Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners by focusing on literary creolization and creolization as cultural syncretism. We will talk discuss why this is significant for Sam Selvon's style. Read the Ramchand, Wyke, Nasta articles and see the Sam Selvon interviews especially before this discussion. Think about the Calypso party at St. Pancras Hall especially - spatial creolization?
- How central is Calypso (part social commentary, part protest, part creative voice that is constantly altering and refashioning itself) as a trope for understanding the delineation of migrant London? How important is it for Selvon's rendering of London and the migrants?
Readings and links for Thursday, June 8.
In case presenters would like to contact Diran Adebayo directly, send him an e-mail and please mention my name & the course. Diran Adebayo's Email address: dizzy@diran.freeserve.co.uk
Some web links on Diran Adebayo
Radio Interviews (Real player needed. If realplayer is not installed on your computer, you may install the player from the navigation panel to the left.)
- The problems with writing about minority communities. The novelist Diran Adebayo and the playwright and actor Kwame Kwei Armah. Today. BBC Radio Four. December 5, 2003.
- Listen to Rachel Cusk's interview with Diran Adebayo and other writers on how their mothers feature in their writing. Writing Mothers into their texts. Forward to 1:20 min. Open Book BBC Radio Four. March 30, 2003.
- "When you're a minority artist you do tend to suffer from the burden of representation" ( 5 Dec 2003) Interview with Diran Adebayo.
- What resonance does the image of the white man in Africa have today? Writers Giles Foden and Diran Adebayo discuss. Listen to Diran Adebayo. 15 Jan. 2005. BBC Radio Four.
Some Articles by Diran Adebayo
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Thursday, June 8
Diran Adebayo: Some Kind of Black
Diran Adebayo's Web Site
Diran Adebayo's Email address: dizzy@diran.freeserve.co.uk
Presentation by Kelley, Manmeet, and Susan - Interviews with Diran Adebayo
(To download any of these files, right click on the hyperlink and select "save target as" )
Also, see the seminars archive.
Readings and links for Thursday, June 8
Articles - Diran Adebayo's work
In case presenters would like to contact Diran Adebayo directly, send him an e-mail and please mention my name & the course. Diran Adebayo's Email address: dizzy@diran.freeserve.co.uk
Composite Document of Articles and Comments by Diran Adebayo on Black Britishness, Black British Writing, and His own work in The Guardian.
Some web links on Diran Adebayo
Radio Interviews (Real player needed. If realplayer is not installed on your computer, you may install the player from the navigation panel to the left.)
- The problems with writing about minority communities. The novelist Diran Adebayo and the playwright and actor Kwame Kwei Armah. Today. BBC Radio Four. December 5, 2003.
- Listen to Rachel Cusk's interview with Diran Adebayo and other writers on how their mothers feature in their writing. Writing Mothers into their texts. Forward to 1:20 min. Open Book BBC Radio Four. March 30, 2003.
- "When you're a minority artist you do tend to suffer from the burden of representation" ( 5 Dec 2003) Interview with Diran Adebayo.
- What resonance does the image of the white man in Africa have today? Writers Giles Foden and Diran Adebayo discuss. Listen to Diran Adebayo. 15 Jan. 2005. BBC Radio Four.
Some Articles by Diran Adebayo
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Friday, June 9
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Monday, June 12
Diran Adebayo: Some Kind of Black
Diran Adebayo's Web Site
Diran Adebayo's Email address: dizzy@diran.freeserve.co.uk
Presentation by Kate, Susan, and Seung Hee - Content Presentation
(To download any of these files, right click on the hyperlink and select "save target as" )
Also, see the seminars archive.
Readings and links for Tuesday, June 13
Articles - Diran Adebayo's work
In case presenters would like to contact Diran Adebayo directly, send him an e-mail and please mention my name & the course. Diran Adebayo's Email address: dizzy@diran.freeserve.co.uk
Composite Document of Articles and Comments by Diran Adebayo on Black Britishness, Black British Writing, and His own work in The Guardian.
Some web links on Diran Adebayo
Radio Interviews (Real player needed. If realplayer is not installed on your computer, you may install the player from the navigation panel to the left.)
- The problems with writing about minority communities. The novelist Diran Adebayo and the playwright and actor Kwame Kwei Armah. Today. BBC Radio Four. December 5, 2003.
- Listen to Rachel Cusk's interview with Diran Adebayo and other writers on how their mothers feature in their writing. Writing Mothers into their texts. Forward to 1:20 min. Open Book BBC Radio Four. March 30, 2003.
- "When you're a minority artist you do tend to suffer from the burden of representation" ( 5 Dec 2003) Interview with Diran Adebayo.
- What resonance does the image of the white man in Africa have today? Writers Giles Foden and Diran Adebayo discuss. Listen to Diran Adebayo. 15 Jan. 2005. BBC Radio Four.
Some Articles by Diran Adebayo
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Tuesday, June 13
Andrea Levy: Small Island
Andrea Levy's Web Site
For the presentation by Jason, Marlis, and Mehmet - See the following interviews and profiles
Interviews (Print and Radio) with and Profiles of Andrea Levy
(To download any of these files, right click on the hyperlink and select "save target as" )
Radio Interview/Discussion -Andrea Levy: Small Island (Real player needed. If realplayer is not installed on your computer, you may install the player from the navigation panel to the left.)
Profiles: Andrea Levy
Readings and other links for Wednesday & Thursday, June 14 & 15
Scholarly Articles
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Monday, June 19
Andrea Levy: Small Island
Andrea Levy's Web Site
For the presentation by Emily, Kelley, and Allison, download or view the file as a word file.
For the presentation by Jason, Marlis, and Mehmet -download or view the file as a word file.
Interviews (Print and Radio) with and Profiles of Andrea Levy
(To download any of these files, right click on the hyperlink and select "save target as" )
Radio Interview/Discussion -Andrea Levy: Small Island (Real player needed. If realplayer is not installed on your computer, you may install the player from the navigation panel to the left.)
Profiles: Andrea Levy
Readings and other links for Wednesday & Thursday, June 14 & 15
Scholarly Articles
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Caryl Phillips: A Distant Shore
Class Discussion Points
- We will start our class discussions on Caryl Phillips with a seminar presentation by Seung Hee, Emily, and Erika.
- Caryl Phillips on his works: perspectives, key issues, writing, and other related aspects of his writing.
For the presentation by Seung Hee, Emily, and Erika, download or view the file as a word file.
Web Links
Caryl Phillips' Web site - The Author's web site
The Caryl Phillips Bibliography Compiled by Benedicte Ledent, English Department, University of Liege.
Online Interviews on A Distant Shore
'NPR: Rabid Reader: Caryl Phillips, "A Distant Shore"', 11 February 2004.
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1670937
'A Conversation with Caryl Phillips, author of the novel A Distant Shore ', ChickenBones: A Journal for Literary & Artistic African-American Themes , November 2003.
http://www.nathanielturner.com/distantshore2.htm
Scholarly Articles: Interviews
Clingman, Stephen. Other Voices: An Interview with Caryl Phillips. Salmagundi 143 (2004): 112-140.
Jaggi, Maya. With Caryl Phillips. Writing Across Worlds: Contemporary Writers Talk New York: Routledge, 2004. 113-124.
Schatteman, Renee. Disrupting the Master Narrative: An Interview With Caryl Phillips. Commonwealth 23.2 (2001): 93-106.
Eckstein, Lars. The Insistence of Voices: An Interview with Caryl Phillips Ariel 32.2 (2001): 33-45.
Goldman, Paul. Home, Blood, and Belonging: A Conversation with Caryl Phillips Moving worlds. 2.2 (2001): 115-122.
Gunning, Dave. Anti-Racism, the Nation-State and Contemporary Black British Literature The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 38.2 (2004): 29-43.(Not included in the presentation)
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Caryl Phillips: A Distant Shore
Class Discussion Points
For the presentation by Seung Hee, Emily, and Erika, download or view the file as a word file.
Web Links
Caryl Phillips' Web site - The Author's web site
The Caryl Phillips Bibliography Compiled by Benedicte Ledent, English Department, University of Liege.
Online Interviews on A Distant Shore
'NPR: Rabid Reader: Caryl Phillips, "A Distant Shore"', 11 February 2004.
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1670937
'A Conversation with Caryl Phillips, author of the novel A Distant Shore ', ChickenBones: A Journal for Literary & Artistic African-American Themes , November 2003.
http://www.nathanielturner.com/distantshore2.htm
Scholarly Articles: Interviews
Clingman, Stephen. Other Voices: An Interview with Caryl Phillips. Salmagundi 143 (2004): 112-140.
Jaggi, Maya. With Caryl Phillips. Writing Across Worlds: Contemporary Writers Talk New York: Routledge, 2004. 113-124.
Schatteman, Renee. Disrupting the Master Narrative: An Interview With Caryl Phillips. Commonwealth 23.2 (2001): 93-106.
Eckstein, Lars. The Insistence of Voices: An Interview with Caryl Phillips Ariel 32.2 (2001): 33-45.
Goldman, Paul. Home, Blood, and Belonging: A Conversation with Caryl Phillips Moving worlds. 2.2 (2001): 115-122.
Gunning, Dave. Anti-Racism, the Nation-State and Contemporary Black British Literature The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 38.2 (2004): 29-43.(Not included in the presentation)
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Caryl Phillips: A Distant Shore
Caryl Phillips' Official Web Site
The Caryl Phillips Bibliography Compiled by Benedicte Ledent, English Department, University of Liege.
Class Matters: See the Assignments page for updates: Topic, proposal, and annotated bibliography; guidelines for writing the final research paper.
Additional Articles on Caryl Phillips' Works
Ledent, Bénédicte. "'Of, and Not of, This Place': Attachment and Detachment in Caryl Phillips' A Distant Shore." Kunapipi 26.1 (2004): 152-160.
Ledent, Bénédicte."The 'Aesthetics of Personalism' in Caryl Phillips's Writing: Complexity as a New Brand of Humanism." World literature Written in English. 39.1 (2001): 75-84.
Sarvan, Charles. "The Fictional Works of Caryl Phillips: An Introduction." Twayne Companion to Contemporary World Literature. 433-439.
Buchanan, Brad. "Caryl Phillips: Colonialism, Cultural Hybridity and Racial Difference." Contemporary British Fiction. (See document for full citation).
Ledent, Bénédicte. "Caryl Phillips: Master of Ambiguity." (See document for full citation)
Ledent, Bénédicte. "'One Is Exiled When One Refuses to Obey the Commandments of Conquest Mission': Religion as Metaphor in Caryl Phillips's Diasporic Philosophy." (See document for full citation)
Rice, Alan. "'Heroes across the Sea': Black and White British Fascination with African Americans in the Contemporary Black British Fiction of Caryl Phillips and Jackie Kay." Blackening Europe: the African American Presence / (See doument for full citation).
Tournay, Petra. "Re-Telling the Past: Metafiction in Caryl Phillips's Diasporic Narratives." Bridges across Chasms: Towards a Transcultural Future in Caribbean Literature (See document for full citation)
Tournay, Petra. "Challenging Shakespeare: Strategies of Writing Back in Zadie Smith's White Teeth and Caryl Phillips' The Nature of Blood." Refracting the Canon in Contemporary British Literature and Film. (See document for full citation).
Class Discussion Points
Web Links
Caryl Phillips' Web site - The Author's web site
The Caryl Phillips Bibliography Compiled by Benedicte Ledent, English Department, University of Liege.
Online Interviews on A Distant Shore
'NPR: Rabid Reader: Caryl Phillips, "A Distant Shore"', 11 February 2004.
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1670937
'A Conversation with Caryl Phillips, author of the novel A Distant Shore ', ChickenBones: A Journal for Literary & Artistic African-American Themes , November 2003.
http://www.nathanielturner.com/distantshore2.htm
Scholarly Articles: Interviews
Clingman, Stephen. Other Voices: An Interview with Caryl Phillips. Salmagundi 143 (2004): 112-140.
Jaggi, Maya. With Caryl Phillips. Writing Across Worlds: Contemporary Writers Talk New York: Routledge, 2004. 113-124.
Schatteman, Renee. Disrupting the Master Narrative: An Interview With Caryl Phillips. Commonwealth 23.2 (2001): 93-106.
Eckstein, Lars. The Insistence of Voices: An Interview with Caryl Phillips Ariel 32.2 (2001): 33-45.
Goldman, Paula. Home, Blood, and Belonging: A Conversation with Caryl Phillips Moving Worlds. 2.2 (2001): 115-122.
Gunning, Dave. Anti-Racism, the Nation-State and Contemporary Black British Literature The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 38.2 (2004): 29-43.(Not included in the presentation)
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Caryl Phillips: A Distant Shore
Caryl Phillips' Official Web Site
The Caryl Phillips Bibliography Compiled by Benedicte Ledent, English Department, University of Liege.
Class Discussion Points
We will continue our class discussions on Caryl Phillips with a seminar presentation by Manmeet and Erika. Key issues in A Distant Shore.
Additional Articles on Caryl Phillips' Works
Ledent, Bénédicte. "'Of, and Not of, This Place': Attachment and Detachment in Caryl Phillips' A Distant Shore." Kunapipi 26.1 (2004): 152-160.
Ledent, Bénédicte."The 'Aesthetics of Personalism' in Caryl Phillips's Writing: Complexity as a New Brand of Humanism." World literature Written in English. 39.1 (2001): 75-84.
Sarvan, Charles. "The Fictional Works of Caryl Phillips: An Introduction." Twayne Companion to Contemporary World Literature. 433-439.
Buchanan, Brad. "Caryl Phillips: Colonialism, Cultural Hybridity and Racial Difference." Contemporary British Fiction. (See document for full citation).
Ledent, Bénédicte. "Caryl Phillips: Master of Ambiguity." (See document for full citation)
Ledent, Bénédicte. "'One Is Exiled When One Refuses to Obey the Commandments of Conquest Mission': Religion as Metaphor in Caryl Phillips's Diasporic Philosophy." (See document for full citation)
Rice, Alan. "'Heroes across the Sea': Black and White British Fascination with African Americans in the Contemporary Black British Fiction of Caryl Phillips and Jackie Kay." Blackening Europe: the African American Presence / (See doument for full citation).
Tournay, Petra. "Re-Telling the Past: Metafiction in Caryl Phillips's Diasporic Narratives." Bridges across Chasms: Towards a Transcultural Future in Caribbean Literature (See document for full citation)
Class Readings: Dub Poetry. Linton Kwesi Johnson and Benjamin Zephaniah
Read before Tuesday
Articles:
Hitchcock, "It Dread Inna Inglan": Linton Kwesi Johnson, Dread, and Dub Identity." Postmodern Culture. 4.1 (1993): HTML Version
Caesar, Burt. "Interview: Linton Kwesi Johnson Talks to Burt Caesar at Parkside Studios, Brixton, London, June 1996" Critical Quarterly Winter; 38.4 (1996): 64-77.
McGill, Robert. "Goon poets of the black Atlantic: Linton Kwesi Johnson's imagined canon." Textual Practice 17.3 (2003): 561-574.
Hippolyte, Idara. "Collapsing the 'Oral-Literary' Continuum." Interventions: The International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 6.1 (2004): 82-100.
Sharpe, Jenny. "Articles Cartographies of Globalisation, Technologies of Gendered Subjectivities: The Dub Poetry of Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze." Gender & History 15.3 (2003): 440-459.
HILL, JACK. "Black Religious Ethics and Higher Education: Rastafarian identity as a resource for inclusiveness." Journal of Beliefs & Values: Studies in Religion & Education 24.1 (2003): 3.
Morris, Mervyn. "Mutabaruka." Critical Quarterly 38.4 (1996): 39-49.
Web Links
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Official Web Site of LKJ's record store - LKJ Records
IReggae Interviews of Linton Kwesi Johnson - Audio Interview - May 25, 1999.
Linton Kwesi Johnson Interview with Billy Bob Hargus, 1997.
Rawlinson, Nancy. "Inglan is a Bitch." Linton Kwesi Johnson Interview in Spike Magazine.
Sample dub poetry from Amazon.com: Tings and Times; It Dread Inna Inglan.
Benjamin Zephaniah
Official Web site of Benjamin Zephaniah
IReggae Interviews and Articles of Benjamin Zephaniah
"Interview with Benjamin Zephaniah." IPressureWorks: Joe Zacune, October 14, 2005.
Benjamin Zephaniah Rejects the OBE: Benjamin Zephaniah: "I've been fighting against this Empire all my life" Link to this interview from the BBC Web Site
Interview and Notes about Benjamin Zephaniah and his Work.
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Class Discussion Points
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Definitions of dub poetry or is it dub poetry? Genre for the masses or trash (cultural elitists)
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New Aesthetic: foundational roots of dub poetry (Rastafarianism - " rastafari is part of my[. . .] cultural roots", historical formations in diaspora roots, language - Kamua Braithwaite et al, style - vernacular, toasting, proverbs and witticisms from the oral tradition, Biblical verses, syntactic parallelism, repetition & other rhetorical devices, culture - 1960s, 70s, 80s dancehall culture, and rhyming militancy - Black power & dread, I n' I v Babylon)
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Performance genre?
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Key thematic concerns: identity, neo-colonialism, race and racism, oppression, equality and justice, life in Black communities (ghettos), police brutality)
Books
Take a look at Christian Habekost's book length study of dub poetry, Verbal Riddim: The Politics and Aesthetics of Dub Poetry. A number of book chapters will be posted here soon.
Articles:
Hitchcock, "It Dread Inna Inglan": Linton Kwesi Johnson, Dread, and Dub Identity." Postmodern Culture. 4.1 (1993): HTML Version
Caesar, Burt. "Interview: Linton Kwesi Johnson Talks to Burt Caesar at Parkside Studios, Brixton, London, June 1996" Critical Quarterly Winter; 38.4 (1996): 64-77.
McGill, Robert. "Goon poets of the black Atlantic: Linton Kwesi Johnson's imagined canon." Textual Practice 17.3 (2003): 561-574.
Hippolyte, Idara. "Collapsing the 'Oral-Literary' Continuum." Interventions: The International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 6.1 (2004): 82-100.
Sharpe, Jenny. "Articles Cartographies of Globalisation, Technologies of Gendered Subjectivities: The Dub Poetry of Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze." Gender & History 15.3 (2003): 440-459.
HILL, JACK. "Black Religious Ethics and Higher Education: Rastafarian identity as a resource for inclusiveness." Journal of Beliefs & Values: Studies in Religion & Education 24.1 (2003): 3.
Morris, Mervyn. "Mutabaruka." Critical Quarterly 38.4 (1996): 39-49.
Web Links
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Official Web Site of LKJ's record store - LKJ Records
IReggae Interviews of Linton Kwesi Johnson - Audio Interview - May 25, 1999.
Linton Kwesi Johnson Interview with Billy Bob Hargus, 1997.
Rawlinson, Nancy. "Inglan is a Bitch." Linton Kwesi Johnson Interview in Spike Magazine.
Sample dub poetry from Amazon.com: Tings and Times; It Dread Inna Inglan.
Benjamin Zephaniah
Official Web site of Benjamin Zephaniah
IReggae Interviews and Articles of Benjamin Zephaniah
"Interview with Benjamin Zephaniah." IPressureWorks: Joe Zacune, October 14, 2005.
Benjamin Zephaniah Rejects the OBE: Benjamin Zephaniah: "I've been fighting against this Empire all my life" Link to this interview from the BBC Web Site
Interview and Notes about Benjamin Zephaniah and his Work.
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Linton Kwesi Johnson and Benjamin Zephaniah: Dub Poetry.
Class Discussion Points
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Definitions of dub poetry or is it dub poetry? Genre for the masses or trash (cultural elitists)
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New Aesthetic: foundational roots of dub poetry (Rastafarianism - " rastafari is part of my[. . .] cultural roots", historical formations in diaspora roots, language - Kamua Braithwaite et al, style - vernacular, toasting, proverbs and witticisms from the oral tradition, Biblical verses, syntactic parallelism, repetition & other rhetorical devices, culture - 1960s, 70s, 80s dancehall culture, and rhyming militancy - Black power & dread, I n' I v Babylon)
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Performance genre?
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Key thematic concerns: identity, neo-colonialism, race and racism, oppression, equality and justice, life in Black communities (ghettos), police brutality)
Books
Take a look at Christian Habekost's book length study of dub poetry, Verbal Riddim: The Politics and Aesthetics of Dub Poetry. A number of book chapters will be posted here soon.
I will also distribute excerpts from Write Black Write British (Hertford: Hansib, 2005 Ed. Kadija Sesay)The two chapters are Kwame Dawes' "Black British Poetry: Some Considerations" and Eric Doumerc's "Benjamin Zephaniah: The Black British Griot." We will discuss both texts..
Articles (additional articles included):
Hitchcock, "It Dread Inna Inglan": Linton Kwesi Johnson, Dread, and Dub Identity." Postmodern Culture. 4.1 (1993): HTML Version
Caesar, Burt. "Interview: Linton Kwesi Johnson Talks to Burt Caesar at Parkside Studios, Brixton, London, June 1996" Critical Quarterly Winter; 38.4 (1996): 64-77.
McGill, Robert. "Goon poets of the black Atlantic: Linton Kwesi Johnson's imagined canon." Textual Practice 17.3 (2003): 561-574.
Hippolyte, Idara. "Collapsing the 'Oral-Literary' Continuum." Interventions: The International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 6.1 (2004): 82-100.
Sharpe, Jenny. "Articles Cartographies of Globalisation, Technologies of Gendered Subjectivities: The Dub Poetry of Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze." Gender & History 15.3 (2003): 440-459.
HILL, JACK. "Black Religious Ethics and Higher Education: Rastafarian identity as a resource for inclusiveness." Journal of Beliefs & Values: Studies in Religion & Education 24.1 (2003): 3.
Morris, Mervyn. "Mutabaruka." Critical Quarterly 38.4 (1996): 39-49.
Doumerc, Eric. "An Interview with Benjamin Zephaniah." Kunapipi. 26.1 (2004): 136-150.
Doumerc, Eric. "Jamaica's First Dub Poets: Early Jamaican Deejaying as a Form of Oral Poetry." Kunapipi 26.1 (2004): 126-135.
DeCosmo, Janet. "Dub Poetry: Legacy of Roots Reggae." The Griot 14.2 (1995): 33-41.
Middleton, Darren. "Chanting Down Babylon: Three Rastafarian Dub Poets." 'This Is How We Flow': Rhythm in Black Cultures. See text for full citation.
Carr, Brenda. "'Come Mek Wi Work Together': Community Values and Social Agency in Lillian Allen's Dub Poetry." Ariel. 29.3 (1998): 7-40.
Middleton, Darren. "Riddim Wise and Scripture Smart: Interview and Interretation with Ras Benjamin Zephaniah." See Text for full citation.
Web Links
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Official Web Site of LKJ's record store - LKJ Records
IReggae Interviews of Linton Kwesi Johnson - Audio Interview - May 25, 1999.
Linton Kwesi Johnson Interview with Billy Bob Hargus, 1997.
Rawlinson, Nancy. "Inglan is a Bitch." Linton Kwesi Johnson Interview in Spike Magazine.
Sample dub poetry from Amazon.com: Tings and Times; It Dread Inna Inglan.
Benjamin Zephaniah
Official Web site of Benjamin Zephaniah
IReggae Interviews and Articles of Benjamin Zephaniah
"Interview with Benjamin Zephaniah." IPressureWorks: Joe Zacune, October 14, 2005.
Benjamin Zephaniah Rejects the OBE: Benjamin Zephaniah: "I've been fighting against this Empire all my life" Link to this interview from the BBC Web Site
Interview and Notes about Benjamin Zephaniah and his Work.
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Linton Kwesi Johnson and Benjamin Zephaniah: Dub Poetry.
Class Discussion Points
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Definitions of dub poetry or is it dub poetry? Genre for the masses or trash (cultural elitists)
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New Aesthetic: foundational roots of dub poetry (Rastafarianism - " rastafari is part of my[. . .] cultural roots", historical formations in diaspora roots, language - Kamua Braithwaite et al, style - vernacular, toasting, proverbs and witticisms from the oral tradition, Biblical verses, syntactic parallelism, repetition & other rhetorical devices, culture - 1960s, 70s, 80s dancehall culture, and rhyming militancy - Black power & dread, I n' I v Babylon)
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Performance genre?
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Key thematic concerns: identity, neo-colonialism, race and racism, oppression, equality and justice, life in Black communities (ghettos), police brutality)
Books
Take a look at Christian Habekost's book length study of dub poetry, Verbal Riddim: The Politics and Aesthetics of Dub Poetry. A number of book chapters will be posted here soon.
I will also distribute excerpts from Write Black Write British (Hertford: Hansib, 2005 Ed. Kadija Sesay)The two chapters are Kwame Dawes' "Black British Poetry: Some Considerations" and Eric Doumerc's "Benjamin Zephaniah: The Black British Griot." We will discuss both texts..
Articles (additional articles included):
Hitchcock, "It Dread Inna Inglan": Linton Kwesi Johnson, Dread, and Dub Identity." Postmodern Culture. 4.1 (1993): HTML Version
Caesar, Burt. "Interview: Linton Kwesi Johnson Talks to Burt Caesar at Parkside Studios, Brixton, London, June 1996" Critical Quarterly Winter; 38.4 (1996): 64-77.
McGill, Robert. "Goon poets of the black Atlantic: Linton Kwesi Johnson's imagined canon." Textual Practice 17.3 (2003): 561-574.
Hippolyte, Idara. "Collapsing the 'Oral-Literary' Continuum." Interventions: The International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 6.1 (2004): 82-100.
Sharpe, Jenny. "Articles Cartographies of Globalisation, Technologies of Gendered Subjectivities: The Dub Poetry of Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze." Gender & History 15.3 (2003): 440-459.
HILL, JACK. "Black Religious Ethics and Higher Education: Rastafarian identity as a resource for inclusiveness." Journal of Beliefs & Values: Studies in Religion & Education 24.1 (2003): 3.
Morris, Mervyn. "Mutabaruka." Critical Quarterly 38.4 (1996): 39-49.
Doumerc, Eric. "An Interview with Benjamin Zephaniah." Kunapipi. 26.1 (2004): 136-150.
Doumerc, Eric. "Jamaica's First Dub Poets: Early Jamaican Deejaying as a Form of Oral Poetry." Kunapipi 26.1 (2004): 126-135.
DeCosmo, Janet. "Dub Poetry: Legacy of Roots Reggae." The Griot 14.2 (1995): 33-41.
Middleton, Darren. "Chanting Down Babylon: Three Rastafarian Dub Poets." 'This Is How We Flow': Rhythm in Black Cultures. See text for full citation.
Carr, Brenda. "'Come Mek Wi Work Together': Community Values and Social Agency in Lillian Allen's Dub Poetry." Ariel. 29.3 (1998): 7-40.
Middleton, Darren. "Riddim Wise and Scripture Smart: Interview and Interpretation with Ras Benjamin Zephaniah." See Text for full citation.
Web Links
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Official Web Site of LKJ's record store - LKJ Records
IReggae Interviews of Linton Kwesi Johnson - Audio Interview - May 25, 1999.
Linton Kwesi Johnson Interview with Billy Bob Hargus, 1997.
Rawlinson, Nancy. "Inglan is a Bitch." Linton Kwesi Johnson Interview in Spike Magazine.
Sample dub poetry from Amazon.com: Tings and Times; It Dread Inna Inglan.
Benjamin Zephaniah
Official Web site of Benjamin Zephaniah
IReggae Interviews and Articles of Benjamin Zephaniah
"Interview with Benjamin Zephaniah." IPressureWorks: Joe Zacune, October 14, 2005.
Benjamin Zephaniah Rejects the OBE: Benjamin Zephaniah: "I've been fighting against this Empire all my life" Link to this interview from the BBC Web Site
Interview and Notes about Benjamin Zephaniah and his Work.
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Email: PKMuana@gmail.com or muana@tamu.edu
Phone: (832) 215-4258 or (979) 458-3367
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