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Engelsk tekstlæsning: Tradition and Innovation

Ved lektor, mag.art. Dorrit Einersen, KU

Readings and discussions of three 21^st century novels:

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun (4^th Estate, Harper Collins 2017 (2006)) a book about civil war and violence in Nigeria in the 1960s and personal relationships of love end deceit,

Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte (Vintage, London 2020 (2019)) a new version of Cervantes’ Don Quixote transposed to our modern world, a comic and melancholy novel by the Indian and international writer Salman Rushdie, and Ali Smith’s new novel Summer (Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Randon House 2020) the fourth novel in a sequence (Autumn, Winter, Spring) with Ali Smith’s characteristic sweeps from past to present and numerous allusions to English and classical literature and to the present situation with Britain’s Brexit , the virus and lockdowns.

All three novels are innovative but also contain references to earlier literature.