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 Kevin Boyle, Associate Professor - English |
The Empire Writes Back In our upper-level GST class, The Empire Writes Back, we studied different areas of British colonial expansion, including Northern Ireland, the Sudan, India, Jamaica, and Palestine. Because we were studying in London, we had a vast array of opportunities at our fingertips: the British Museum, a theatre version of Salman Rushdie's MIDNIGHTS' CHILDREN, and the neighborhoods lived in by immigrants from the colonies. In addition, our grant allowed us to bring in three special speakers. Colin Schindler, from the University of London, spoke about the birth of Israel. Nawazish Bokhari, from the Muslim Council, spoke about various disputed areas of the world, including Israel/Palestine, Kashmir, and Iraq. Sean Boyle, from Northern Ireland, spoke about the poetry written by his contemporary from Northern Ireland, Seamus Heaney, the Nobel-prize winner. Boyle also brought us on a tour of East London, where Jews, Irish, and now Bengalis have lived. We were also able to see a new play called CROSSING JERUSALEM, which spoke of the intifada and the Israeli responses to it. And, finally, to complement our reading of a Sudanese novel, we allowed students to take five dollars off their meals at an authentic Sudanese restaurant. In all of these activities, the goal was to increase students' understanding of the complexities of the current world order, linking current problems with the history of the British Empire. The hope was to make the students more civically minded, by making them more knowledgeable about various regions of the world, and the links between history and current events-both political and artistic. |
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