Representing Slavery in Black British Writing

• Název práce v češtině: Zobrazování otroctví v britské černošské literatuře
• Název v anglickém jazyce: Representing Slavery in Black British Writing
• Klíčová slova: otroctví, britská černošská literatura, historický román, post-koloniální identita, diaspora
• Klíčová slova anglicky: slavery, Black British literature,historical novel, post-colonial identity, diaspora
• Akademický rok vypsání: 2011/2012
• Typ práce: bakalářská práce
• Jazyk práce: angličtina
• Ústav: Ústav anglofonních literatur a kultur (21-UALK)
• Vedoucí / školitel: PhDr. Soňa Nováková, CSc.
• Řešitel: skrytý - zadáno a potvrzeno stud. odd.
• Datum přihlášení: 23.05.2012
• Datum zadání: 23.05.2012
• Schválení administrátorem: zatím neschvalováno
• Datum potvrzení stud. oddělením: 19.08.2013
• Datum a čas obhajoby: 10.09.2013 08:30
• Datum odevzdání elektronické podoby: 16.08.2013
• Datum proběhlé obhajoby: 10.09.2013
• Odevzdaná/finalizovaná: odevzdaná pracovníkem v zastoupení a finalizovaná
• Oponenti: Mgr. Klára Kolinská, Dr., Ph.D.

Zásady pro vypracování

The BA thesis will discuss historical texts which treat the issue of slavery in the Anglophone Caribbean. Analysis of fiction and poetry will be informed by theoretical approaches to the Black diaspora and will focus on narrative and other literary strategies used by the authors, as well as coping with the trauma of slavery and with reconciliation through collective memory.
The selected texts are written by authors who belong to the Black (Afro-Caribbean) diaspora in Britain. Nevertheless, these authors are also a part of the Black diaspora in the Caribbeanand the double-diasporic identity influences their approach to history and the manner in which the form their own identity through their collective past. The Discussion will concentrate on historical novels by Fred D’Aguiar (Feeding the Ghosts; The Longest Memory) and Caryl Philips (Cambridge). Poetry will include Grace Nichols and her collection I Is a Long Memoried Woman. Although David Dabydeen is of Indo-Caribbean origin, several of his poems will be taken into account to help depict the confrontation of slavery, and his verse-novel Turner to be contrasted with Feeding the Ghosts by D’Aguiar.
For the process of critical textual analysis, theoretical conceptualization of issues such as diaspora, home, displacement, collective memory etc. will be taken into account.

Seznam odborné literatury

Primary Literature:
D´Aguiar, Fred. Feeding the Ghosts.London: Vintage, 1997.
D´Aguiar, Fred. The Longest Memory.London: Vintage, 1994.
Dabydeen, David. Turner. 1994.
Morrison, Toni. Beloved. New York: New American Library, 1989.
Nichols, Grace. I Have Crossed an Ocean (Selected Poems). Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books, 2010.
Philips, Caryl. Cambridge.London: Pan Books, 1992.


Secondary Literature:
Brah, Avtar. Cartographies of Diaspora:Contesting Identities. London and New York: Routledge, 1996.
Ceagan, Cathy. “Memory in Toni Morrison's ‘Beloved’, ‘Jazz’ and ‘Paradise’“. February 15 2010. June 2013. < http://cathygeagan.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/memory-in-toni-morrisons-beloved-jazz-and-paradise/>
Conway, Stephen. Memory in Beloved. 1995.
D´Aguiar, Fred. Bloodlines. London: Chatto & Windus, 2000.
Eckstein, Lars. Re—Membering the Black Atlantic, On the Poetics and Politics of Literary Memory. 2003.
Eckstein ,Lars. Cross-Cultures – Readings in the Post-Colonial Literatures in English, Volume 84: Re-Membering the Black Atlantic: On the Poetics and Politics of Literary Memory. 2006.
Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 199l.
Hall, Stuart. Cultural Identity and Diaspora. 1990.
Kegley, Faye. Remembering Slavery Through Toni Morrison´s ‘Beloved’. 2012.
Kim, Heerak Christian. Toni Morrison’s Beloved as African-American Scripture & Other Articles on History and Canon. New Jersey:HermitKingdom Press, 2006.
Klein, Herbert S. African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean. USA: Oxford University Press,
Owusu, Kwesi. Black British Culture and Society. London: Routledge, 2000.
Rice, Alan. Creating Memorials Building Identities, The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2010.
Walter, Wendy W. At Home in Diaspora: Black International Writing. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Ward, Abigail. Caryl Philips, David Dabydeen and Fred D´Aguiar, Representations of Slavery. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2011.