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In the course of four centuries Europeans kidnapped and trafficked almost 12 million Africans across the Atlantic into a 鈥楴ew World鈥� forcefully expropriated from Indigenous peoples. Enslaved labour on stolen land generated great wealth for European colonisers but also sparked an inadvertent cultural revolution: the forced encounter between African, Indigenous and European traditions created new forms of music, poetry, religion, visual art, drama and dance that transformed cultural life in the Americas and within Europe itself.
This module focuses on the Anglophone Black Atlantic and has two intertwined aims. Firstly, we will critically examine the role of cultural production 鈥� including literature, drama and visual art 鈥� in justifying and normalising white supremacy, colonial violence and anti-Black racism. Secondly, we will focus on how Black people across the ages have resisted racism and dehumanisation 鈥� from fugitive histories of Black rebellion to contemporary Black artists, writers and scholars who confront the violent legacies of enslavement in their work.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
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This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.
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