E&D's "Black British Literature" Featured in "Cool New UTM Courses for 2024-2025"
University of Toronto Mississauga students can learn about medical uses for robots, consider solutions to the housing crisis, communicate using emoji and more in courses offered for first time this academic school year. Plus, a new co-op internship program has launched for students enrolled in several programs.
Here are some of the cool new offerings for the 2024-25 school year.
Course: Black British Literature
Course number: ENG355H5
Offered in: Fall 2024
Taught by: Sessional Lecturer Natasha Vashisht
Created by Assistant Professor Anna Thomas, this English & drama course is an advanced introduction to the concept and key texts of “Black British literature.” The term arises directly in response to empire and the postcolonial, Black British literature indicates texts written by both African-descended and South Asian-descended writers from the Caribbean, Africa and the subcontinent. Focused primarily on the 20th century, learners this fall will contextualize this literary tradition within wider questions of Britain in the world and how the idea of literary influence is challenged and reformed.
Attendees of this course can expect to read works by writers such as:
- Sam Selvon,
- Hanif Kureishi,
- Derek Walcott,
- Stuart Hall,
- Buchi Emecheta,
- Caryl Philips,
- Zadie Smith,
- Helen Oyeyemi, and
- Warsan Shire.