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English and Literary Studies Final Year Topic: Schooling and Language Authority in African Autobiography

This English and Literary Studies final year project examines how educational memories construct the authority of particular languages. The proposed evidence base is two published African autobiographies containing sustained schooling narratives.

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Why choose this project topic?

This topic turns autobiographical studies into a focused reading task by investigating how educational memories construct the authority of particular languages. A clearly bounded corpus gives you passages to compare and an argument to develop beyond a general plot summary.

What does a close analysis of two published African autobiographies containing sustained schooling narratives reveal about how educational memories construct the authority of particular languages?

Agree the corpus size, editions and critical framework for this study of how educational memories construct the authority of particular languages with your supervisor.

Proposed project objectives

  1. 01Define the textual features relevant to how educational memories construct the authority of particular languages.
  2. 02Build a documented evidence set from two published African autobiographies containing sustained schooling narratives.
  3. 03Compare remembered classroom encounters, quoted speech and later authorial evaluations of language choice.

A suggested research approach

Obtain lawful access to two published African autobiographies containing sustained schooling narratives. Compare remembered classroom encounters, quoted speech and later authorial evaluations of language choice. Establish selection criteria before detailed reading, record edition and page references, and test the developing interpretation against passages that complicate it.

What you will need

  • Lawful access to two published African autobiographies containing sustained schooling narratives
  • A reading matrix for how educational memories construct the authority of particular languages
  • Relevant scholarly criticism and a consistent citation system

Keep your project scope clear

Retrospective accounts are situated memories rather than comprehensive records of school policy.

English and Literary Studies project chapter outline

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  1. Chapter 1General Introduction
  2. Chapter 2Literature Review and Theoretical Framework
  3. Chapter 3Analysis and Discussion
  4. Chapter 4Further Analysis and Findings
  5. Chapter 5Summary and Conclusion

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