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English and Literary Studies Final Year Topic: Water Imagery and Displacement in African Poetry

This English and Literary Studies final year project examines the symbolic roles of rivers and seas in representations of displacement. The proposed evidence base is a purposively selected corpus of twelve African poems.

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Why choose this project topic?

This topic turns ecopoetics into a focused reading task by investigating the symbolic roles of rivers and seas in representations of displacement. 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 a purposively selected corpus of twelve African poems reveal about the symbolic roles of rivers and seas in representations of displacement?

Agree the corpus size, editions and critical framework for this study of the symbolic roles of rivers and seas in representations of displacement with your supervisor.

Proposed project objectives

  1. 01Define the textual features relevant to the symbolic roles of rivers and seas in representations of displacement.
  2. 02Build a documented evidence set from a purposively selected corpus of twelve African poems.
  3. 03Compare movement verbs, shoreline images and speaking positions; retain poems that complicate the dominant pattern.

A suggested research approach

Obtain lawful access to a purposively selected corpus of twelve African poems. Compare movement verbs, shoreline images and speaking positions; retain poems that complicate the dominant pattern. 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 a purposively selected corpus of twelve African poems
  • A reading matrix for the symbolic roles of rivers and seas in representations of displacement
  • Relevant scholarly criticism and a consistent citation system

Keep your project scope clear

Shared imagery does not imply identical migration histories across poets or communities.

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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