Course Details in 2025/26 Session

Module Title	LH Making Global Literatures in Britain
School	Eng, Drama, & Creative Studies
Department	English Literature
Module Code	09 30727
Module Lead	Asha Rogers
Level	Honours Level
Credits	20
Semester	Semester 2
Pre-requisites
Co-requisites
Restrictions	None
Exclusions
Description	This module examines how global literatures were ‘made’ in Britain from the second half of the twentieth century from the perspective of their emergence through state cultural institutions. Over eleven weeks it tracks the evolving story of British culture, and through a series of emblematic institutions including the British Council, the BBC, the Arts Council and the school curriculum, paying special attention to questions of race, ethnicity, and nationality in the transformation of the post-war scene. Locating globalization and its discontents in the domestic sphere, it encourages reflection on ‘British’, ‘Black British’, and even ‘British Muslim’ as literary categories even as we work within their own specific canons or counter-canons. This module will be of interest to undergraduates with specialisms in postcolonial literatures and twentieth century British literature. Finally, in addition to offering an institutional history of post-war migrant writing, this module also addresses questions of reading and whether literature is always assimilable to its institutional context, inviting students to think critically about the creative conjunctions between text and context Examples of literary texts we might read on this module include: George Lamming, The Pleasures of Exile (1960) Doris Lessing, African Stories (1965) Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen (1974) Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988) The Northern Education and Assessment Board Anthology (1996) Daljit Nagra, British Museum (2017)
Learning Outcomes	By the end of the module, students should be able to: analyse literature from recent history in its institutional contexts. discuss critically the creative conjunctions between text and context. construct meaningful links between literary and non-literary texts, using the latter to illuminate literary analysis. interrogate key organising terms (‘global’, ‘British’, ‘postcolonial’) in literary studies.
Assessment	30727-02 : 1,000 Word Reflective Writing OR Poster : Coursework (25%) 30727-03 : 3.000 Word Essay : Coursework (75%)
Assessment Methods & Exceptions	1,000 word reflection OR poster (30%) 2,500 word essay (70%) Reassessment: Resubmission of failed component(s)
Other
Reading List