Britishness

are carried out. Racial superiority is one of the key aspects of colonial discourse that has disturbed post colonial interaction between the whites and the immigrants from former Afro-Asian and Caribbean colonies. It is so deeply rooted in Britishness that neither the requirements nor the pressures of societal modernisation can uproot it completely. The immigrant also continues to be the other in…

Naming of place and setting in Villette- Sarcasm and Authorial Commentary Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Villette’ makes a conscious and dramatic departure from her creative norm when considering the names given to both character and place within the novel. The underlying significance of the French language, the naming of place and of character will be discussed in this essay. Indeed, Dunbar argues quite clearly that Villette is ‘almost entirely unremarked’ (1960) in this particular method, likely because…

Introduction: Second-generation Irish migrants in post-WWII England took up a variety of noteworthy hybrid-identities. This particular study of displacement is significant in the context of WWII, which produced twenty-seven million displaced persons and furthermore, is relevant in a present day context because of the continually increasing number of refugees worldwide. This essay compares the way that the two popular music bands made up of second-generation Irish migrants, The Pogues and The…

identity, it is focusing on the differences between people and framing those who are different as less worthy. The migrant identity is reinforced through acts of othering, which are part of performing exclusion (Rose-Redwood, Migrant Ethnicity and Britishness, 2016). State borders are a prominent example of performativity theory, as they are reproduced daily; physically through border guards and also ideologically by reinforcing the nation as needing protection from ‘others’. National identity…

Heather Hamill (2011) is the author of ‘The Hoods: Crime and Punishment in West Belfast’, this book offers a unique perspective that equally appeals to academics and the average person. This essay will discuss violence becomes normalised and if so has this happened in the context of this book. Studying the perspectives of the residents, the youth, and the paramilitary group of the area the IRA (Irish Republican Army), as to the possible reasons behind their acceptance of the harsh levels of…

shift in focus, away from British literature to world literatures in English. Once it would have seemed impossible to distinguish Britain and British attitudes from great writing in English, post-colonial literature questions the importance of both Britishness and…

This paper is a deep exploration of the cinematic world, focusing primarily on film directors, their styles and trademarks. This research paper endeavors to give a better understanding of the film world by answering a three part question: How does a film director develop his style and use trademarks to portray or affect viewers to his liking, using tools of film such as music, camera angles, post production, and the like; What are the elements that make up a film director’s style and what makes…

Since assignments will be given letter grades when returned this will equate to one + or – grade per day. Plagiarism—the appropriation of material from books and websites, either copied word-for-word or closely paraphrased—will result on a 0 grade for any assignment found to contain it. Persistent plagiarism will result in a 0 grade for the whole course. Exam: The exam will consist of a two hour test, in which you will be required to answer two essay questions. It will NOT be an open…