Centre/Margin (Periphery)

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Centre / Margin (periphery)

Sanne van Hoogstraten

Learning goals:

- Students can explain what centre/margin means.

- Students can point out centre/margin in a text.

- Students can link imperial Europe to centre/margin.

What do you think the concept of
centre and margin means?

Can you think of some examples where centre/margin applies?

Imperial Europe / Colonalism

Imperial Europe

British Empire

Warsan Shire

- Born 1 August 1988.

- Born to Somali parents in Kenya.

- British writer, poet, editor and teacher.

- Currently lives in Los Angeles.

- Brunel University African Poetry Prize (2013).

Why does the writer refer to home as ‘’the barrel of a gun’?

What is the poem "home" about?

Literary devices

- Repetition (home)

- Metaphor (mouth of a shark / barrel of a gun)

- Symbolism

What is the centre in this text? What is the margin?

You can now:

explain what centre/margin means.

point out centre/margin in a text.

-link imperial Europe to centre/margin.