Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) • Culture History and Society

All notes on seminar discussions on primary source presentations and the readings for the class. Mainly organized by authors readings and their contrasting perspectives on history and the early modern period in Europe but also expanding to other parts of the world, not having a fully Eurocentric view

Class notes on how to analyze most cultural and visual media artifacts including the communication model, paintings and print, photography, film and movies, digital media (like social media or video games), and public spaces

Some role-playing simulation games (RPGs) allow for the customization of the playable character (PC) and possible relationships, whether romantic or platonic. This is the case in the 2016 farming RPG Stardew Valley (referred to as Stardew) by Concerned Ape, where the playable character leaves their tedious office job for a farm their grandfather left. The player can improve their farm and form relationships with the villagers in Stardew Valley. Stardew has regained popularity due to the recent...

Comparing how both Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo and Hold by Michael Donkor utilize the structure of circular endings to emphasize the relationships, bonds, and friendships of the characters

Caryl Phillips’ novel Cambridge (1991) and Sara Collins’ epistolary novel The Confessions of Frannie Langton (2019) depict this period through historical fiction. Cambridge details the story of Emily Cartwright, the daughter of a sugar plantation owner that visits the plantation in the West Indies, and of Cambridge, an enslaved person in the plantation. In The Confessions of Frannie Langton, after Frannie is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in London, she recounts her life and ...

The immigrant characters in Small Island by Andrea Leavy and The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon, face many obstacles in achieving their desired lives due to the color of their skin and so have to develop strategies for self-preservation to avoid feeling displacement in British society. It will be argued that these immigrant characters, after trying to belong to the United Kingdom, realize they are not allowed to and are only able to find belonging in immigrant communities due to the British soci...

Compare two Jamaican characters that arrive for the first time in Britain and their disillusionment and naivety. The characters are Galahad from Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and Hortense in Small Island by Andrea Leavy