Centre / Margin

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Centre / Margin

World Literature

Luuk & Lyanne

Learning Objectives

After today's lesson you can explain what the concept "Centre/Margin" means.

After today's lesson you can link Centre/Margin to the poem Home or other literary works.

What do you think centre / margin means?

Centre / Margin

• Related to the Other
• Colonialism divided the world into Centre (Western Europe) and the rest (Margin) 
• The idea is contentious because it has been supposed that attempts to define the centre/margin model function to perpetuate it.

Warsan Shire

• 33 year old, British writer, poet, editor and teacher
• born to Somali parents in Kenya in 1988
• moved to Britain at the age of 1. 
• Brunel African Poetry Prize

Shire wrote “Conversations about home (at a deportation centre)” in 2009, a piece inspired by a visit she made to the abandoned Somali Embassy in Rome which some young refugees had turned into their home. In an interview, she told the reporter that “The night before she visited, a young Somali had jumped to his death off the roof.” The encounter, she says, opened her eyes to the harsh reality of living as an undocumented refugee in Europe: “I wrote the poem for them, for my family and for anyone who has experienced or lived around grief and trauma in that way."

What did you think about the poem?

Opdracht!

Find a link between Centre/Margin in Home.

Can you also find the other concepts from World Lit?

Other, Third World, Global English, Globalisation

Example

Centre Margin & Home

How does Centre / Margin feature in Exit West, or other literature?

Link met andere concepts

Other
3rd world
Global english
Globalisation

Home & Globalisation

Home & Other

Home & Global English

Home & Third World

After today's lesson I can explain what the concept "Centre/Margin" means.

1. Yes :)
2. No :(

After today's lesson I can link Centre/Margin to the poem Home or other literary works.

1. Yes :)
2. No :(

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