2010_11
Guia docent 
Facultat de Lletres
A A A 
català 
Filologia Anglesa (2001)
 Assignatures
  CULTURA DELS PAÏSOS DEL COMMONWEALTH I
   Continguts
Tema Subtema
1. The Commonwealth

 1.1.- Profile of the Commonwealth
1.2.- The Declaration of Commonwealth Principles.
1.3.- Individual countries of the Commonwealth
1.4.- British Imperialism
1.5.- Shared experiences of Commonwealth countries
2. Africa 2.1.- The importance of religion, symbols, and myths
2.2.- The Ibo culture
2.3.- The Biafran War
2.4.- Dispossession of the land in Kenya and the Mau Mau War
2.5.- The arrival of white settlers to South Africa: the Great Trek and the Boer War
2.6.- The History of Apartheid
2.7. Resistence to Apartheid: the Liberal Party, the ANC, the Inkatha movement.
2.8. Social unrest and post-Apartheid period
3. India 3.1.- Nationalism: the struggle towards independence
3.2.- The role of Gandhi
3.3.- The partition of India: Hindus and Muslims
3.4.- Hindu philosophy
3.5.- The caste system
3.6.- Current readjustments
4. The Caribbean 4.1.- The arrival of the Europeans
4.2.- The plantation system and the slave trade
4.3.- The indigenous peoples: the Arawaks, the caribs, and the Garifuna
4.4.- The feudal structure
4.5.- The concept of family and the condition of caribbean women
4.6.- Political development