1. Introduction to the Course and Its Topic 2. Multiculturalism, Migration and/in Literature. Compulsory reading: Ashcroft, R. T., & Bevir, M. What is Postwar Multiculturalism in Theory and Practice? From R. T. Ashcroft, & M. Bevir (Eds.), Multiculturalism in the British Commonwealth: Comparative perspectives on theory and practice. California: University of California Press. (pp.1-22) 3. Multiculturalism in the USA: history, ethnic minorities, literature, immigration Compulsory reading: John Lowe. Multicultural literature in the United States: advent and process. (pp.7-10); Joan Brodsky Schur. The Literature of Immigration and the Lives of Adolescents: Finding Common Ground (pp.32-39) 4. African-American culture in the context of Multiculturalism: history, culture, identities Compulsory reading: Robert B. Stepto. Black American Literature: New presence (pp.26-29); Paul White, ?Migration and Identity Shift? (pp.2-8) 5. Natives in the context of American Multiculturalism: history, culture, identities. 6. European Constituent of American Multiculturalism: immigration, nationalities, citizenship 7. Multiculturalism in Great Britain: immigration, nationality, citizenship Compulsory reading: Ashcroft, R. T., & Bevir, M. 2019. British multiculturalism after empire: Immigration, nationality and citizenship. (pp.25-45) 8. Multiculturalism in Australia: immigration, nationality, citizenship 9. Canadian Multiculturalism: identity, race, ethnicity, nationality and discrimination Compulsory reading: Avigail Eisenberg. Multiculturalism in a Context of Minority Nationalism and Indigenous Rights: The Canadian Case. (pp.67-82) 10. Multiculturalism in New Zealand: immigration, nationality, citizenship 11. Acculturation Compulsory reading: John W. Berry, ?Acculturation: Living Successfully in Two Cultures? 12. Constructing the Nation Compulsory reading: Benedict Anderson, ?Introduction? from Imagined Communities 13. Multiculturalism: Non-fiction Compulsory reading: Maya Angelou. An Extract from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 14. Test
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The aim of this course is to introduce students to the basic definitions, key approaches in the study of multiculturalism, prerequisites and trends in the formation and development of multiculturalism as a defining pheomenon in the culture of English-speaking countries, such as Gerat Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zeland. Such phenomena as migration, acculturation, minority, identity, race, ethinicty, nationality, prejudice and discrimination as well as the relationshop of these terms to the concepts of nationalism and patriotism are portrayed in a selection of British and American literary-critical texts from the 20th century to the present day.
Through a rigorous and critical reading of these texts students are to gain not only a thorough familiarity with these topical issues, but also a critical vocabulary and a historical perspective to discuss them both insidue and outside the classroom.
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