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Opintojakso, lukuvuosi 2019–2020
KIEKK14
Saarimaailmat kirjallisuudessa ja elokuvassa, 5 op
Tampereen yliopisto
- Kuvaus
- Suoritustavat
Opetusperiodit
Aktiivinen periodissa 1 (1.8.2019–20.10.2019)
Aktiivinen periodissa 2 (21.10.2019–31.12.2019)
Koodi
KIEKK14Opetuskieli
englantiLukuvuosi
2019–2020Opintojakson taso
Syventävät opinnotArvosteluasteikko
Yleinen asteikko, 0-5Vastuuhenkilö
Vastuuopettaja:
Johannes RiquetVastuuorganisaatio
Informaatioteknologian ja viestinnän tiedekunta 100 %
Yhteiset osaamistavoitteet
Kansainvälisyys ja globaali vastuu
Exactly 300 years ago, Daniel Defoe published the
first edition of Robinson Crusoe, which has not only become known as the
first major novel in English but also had a decisive influence on Western ideas
about islands: islands as we tend to imagine them – small, isolated and
uninhabited spaces far away in the ocean waiting to be explored and mastered –
are largely ‘continental’ inventions tied to a long history of colonial
oppression and violence. In the first part of this seminar, we will take Robinson
Crusoe as a starting point for a critical examination of these island
fantasies and their continued effects in twentieth- and twenty-first-century
tourist and escapist fantasies from John Ford’s film The Hurricane (1937)
to the recent television series Lost (2004-2010). In the second part of
the course, we will engage with very different conceptions of islandness by
turning to Pacific and Caribbean island imaginaries. Thus, we will explore how
texts like Samoan author Albert Wendt’s Leaves of the Banyan Tree (1979)
and Jamaican-American writer Michelle Cliff’s No Telephone to Heaven (1987)
imagine islands as spaces of interconnection shaped by literal and metaphorical
ocean currents. We will conclude the seminar by discussing the poems of
Singaporean author Alvin Pang and Kenyan writer Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s novel The
Dragonfly Sea (2019) as planetary texts that place islands at the
crossroads of a global archipelago shaped by transnational flows of water,
people and ideas. Throughout the course, we will also engage with theoretical
perspectives on islands and archipelagoes including Hawaiian scholar Karin
Amimoto Ingersoll’s discussion of indigenous sea-based ontologies in Waves
of Knowing, Epeli Hau‘ofa’s notion of oceanic interconnectedness “Our Sea
of Islands” and Édouard Glissant’s relational philosophy.
Osaamistavoitteet
Kokonaisuudet, joihin opintojakso kuuluu
Suoritustapa 1
Osallistuminen opetukseen
03.09.2019 – 10.12.2019
Aktiivinen periodissa 1 (1.8.2019–20.10.2019)
Aktiivinen periodissa 2 (21.10.2019–31.12.2019)