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London in Modern Anglophone Women’s Literature

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Course title: London in Modern Anglophone Women’s Literature
ECTS credits 6
Semester: Summer, 2nd or 4th
Instructor: Tihana Klepač, PhD, Assoc. Prof.

Prerequisites: None

Goal
To become aware of mechanisms which led to the formulation of Modernism in different cultures of the English speaking world: to become aware of the necessity of discussion on modernity in colonial, national and gender context.

Teaching methods
Lectures and seminars

Assessment methods
Continuous assessment

Learning outcomes

  1. Definition and reproduction of key information from the course (space and time of modernism, women’s writing)
  2. Recognition, connection and understanding of main ideas from the course (colonial/postcolonial/neocolonial; majority/minority; history/story; Other/other; center/margin; women’s writing)
  3. Application of the material learned in new situation by relying on main ideas and information from the course (independent work on the text)
  4. Critical judging of ideas, understanding of similarities and differences based on the work on literary texts (European Modernism vs. contemporary extended space of modernism; canon vs. minority text)
  5. Synthetization and connection of knowledge from different areas (literature, anthropology, history, geography, visual arts) and application of this knowledge in formulation of new texts

 

Syllabus:

  1. Discussion of mechanisms which led to the formulation of Modernism in different cultures in the English-speaking world. Discussion of modernity in colonial, national and gender context.
  2. Space and topics of Modernism

Douglas Mao and Rebecca L. Walkowitz: “The New Modernist Studies”

  1. London as a hub of modern Anglophone writing: focus on colonial, national and gender context
  2. Internationalism vs. nationalist and regional characteristics of Canadian art

Sara Jeanette Duncan: Cousin Cinderella

  1. Black girl in a predominantly while London after WWII, break-up of the British Empire, ethnic movements

Una Marson: Pocomania i London Calling

  1. Modernism between different literary forces – Caribbean, Modernist, womens’ writing and postcolonialism

Jean Rhys: Voyage in the Dark

  1. Politically engaged Modernist aesthetics

Olive Schreiner: From Man to Man

  1. Socialist ideas and Australian youth at the beginning of 20th century

Christina Stead: Seven Poor Men of Sydney

  1. Colonial Modernism in the so called “little” magazines

Katherine Mansfield: “Life of Ma Parker”, “The Garden Party”, “The Daughters of the Late Colonel”

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LITERATURE:
Douglas Mao and Rebecca L. Walkowitz: “The New Modernist Studies”
Sara Jeanette Duncan: Cousin Cinderella
Una Marson: Pocomania i London Calling
Jean Rhys: Woman in the Dark
Olive Schreiner: From Man to Man
Christina Stead: Seven Poor Men of Sydney
Katherine Mansfield: “Life of Ma Parker”, “The Garden Party”, “The Daughters of the Late Colonel”

ADDITIONAL:
Anna Snaith: Modernist Voyages: Colonial Women Writers in London, 1890-1945
Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker: Geographies of Modernism
Elleke Boehmer: Empire, the National and the Postcolonial 1890-1920
Elleke Boehmer: Indian Arrivals 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire
Partha Chatterjee: Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World
Neil Lazarus: Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World
Anne McClintock: Imperial Leather
Delia Jarrett-Macaulay: The Life of Una Marson, 1905–1960
Carolyn Burdett: Olive Schreiner and the Progress of Feminism
Sylvie Maurel: Jean Rhys
Diana Brydon: Christina Stead
Janet Wilson, Gerri Kimber, Susan Reid (eds): Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism