Cultures of Migration, Diaspora and Exile MA (Pathway of MA European Languages & Cultures)
Objectives-make students fully conversant with the methods of scholarly research in a humanities discipline and the resources necessary for such research. -equip students for further study and research. -provide graduates holding a first degree in a modern European language or languages with the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of the literature and culture of one or more areas where these languages are spoken. -provide a thorough grounding in modern critical theoretical approaches to literary and cultural studies. -provide for graduates without a first degree in a modern European language a programme of study that introduces them to the study of the literature and culture of one or more areas within Europe and/or Latin America, and to be familiar with key primary texts from these areas in translation.
Entry requirementsEntry requirements: The normal requirement for admission to the MA is an Upper Second class Honours degree, or higher, or its overseas equivalent, in a suitable Humanities discipline.
Academic titleCultures of Migration, Diaspora and Exile MA
Course descriptionCourse description
The MA Cultures of Migration, Diaspora and Exile pathway provides students with a first degree in a modern European language or languages or in a related humanities discipline, with an in-depth knowledge of the culture, literature and cultural history arising from the historical and social processes of collective population movement and individual displacement. Some options explore economic migration experiences, exile writing, travel literature, or diaspora and refugee displacement through war and violence. These thematic issues are approached through a range of historically and regionally specific examples of migrant or diaspora culture (eg Islam in Spain, Turkish writers in Germany, Mexico and the USA, Portuguese Africa, Jewish culture in Germany), by way of focusing on a common core of theoretical concerns. These will include: language and identity, race and hybridity, the impact of globalisation and transnationalism, the gendered construction of nationhood, the significance of cultural memory and effects of trauma and shifting definitions of imagined community as mediated by culture. The MA also provides a thorough grounding in critical theoretical approaches to literary and cultural studies, and makes students conversant with the methods of scholarly research in the humanities and with the resources necessary for that research.
Module details
Compulsory course units include: Critical Theory and Research Methods. Optional course units available typically include:
-Turkish Women's Writing in German: Emine Sevgi Özdamar
-Trauma and Memory in 20 th Century French Life Writing
-Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary French Cinema
-Jewish Culture in the German Speaking context
-Border Crossings: Comparative Cultures of Diaspora
-Sex, Lies and Rhetorics: The Book of Celestina
-Writing Diaspora/Imagining Nation: Portuguese Migrant Literature
-In and Out of Africa: Portuguese Post/colonial Writing
-African Women's Writing in Portuguese
-In or Out? Inclusion and Exclusion on Old French Narrative
-Issues and Approaches in Transcultural Studies: Society, Culture and Postcoloniality
-Spanish American Literature
-New German Identities: Turkish-German Culture
-Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory
-Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences: Theory and Historiography
-Time, Language and the Other in Modern Jewish Philosophy
-The `Jewish Question' in Modern Europe