代写5AML0001 Marketing the Margins: Case Studies in the Cultural Marketplace SECOND SEMESTER COURSEWOR

Departmentof Languages, Literatures and Cultures

SECOND SEMESTER COURSEWORK 2023/2024

5AML0001 Marketing the Margins: Case Studies in the Cultural Marketplace

Write ONE essay of 2500 words from the list below.

Essays exceeding this maximum length by 5% or more will receive a penalty (see the link to the guidelines below). The assignment is worth 70% of the total mark for this module.

Please follow the submission guidelines displayed in the King’s E-learning and Teaching Service (KEATS) module assignment submission area.

If you either fail to submit material for assessment or submit on or after the deadline and have not made a request for an extension or have not satisfied the Chair of the

Assessment Sub Board that your mitigating circumstances offer valid reasons for

submitting late work, you will have an automatic penalty applied. Penalties for late submission are outlined here:

https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/students/dllc/academic-assess/assessment/cwksub

Make sure you have read the information about Assessment in the Department Handbook:

https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/students/dllc/academic-assess/assessment/index

You can find information on the Style. Guide for your assignment here:

https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/students/dllc/academic-assess/assessment/style-

guide-dllc

Your attention is drawn to the Faculty guidelines on plagiarism & other related forms of cheating. In submitting your essay you will be assumed to have complied with these

regulations. For more information and relevant links, see the following page:

https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/students/dllc/academic-

assess/assessment/plagiarism

Essay Questions

You should answer ONE of the following questions:

1.  “Staged marginality is not necessarily an exercise in self-abasement; it may, and often does, have a critical or even a subversive function” (Graham

Huggan). Discuss this statement with reference to the content and promotion of ANY TWO literary works studied on the module.

2.  The act of storytelling is not only closely related to authorship but also to branding and labelling. Discuss this claim with reference to ANY TWO literary works studied on the module.

3.  Examine the function and influence of the literary manifesto AND/OR

literary prize in relation to the image and positionality of authors within the European publishing industry, with reference to EITHER:

a)  Alain Mabanckou’s Black Bazar AND the ‘ Pour une littérature- monde en français ’ manifesto.

OR

b)  The prize-winning literary works of Aras Ören AND Emine Sevgi Özdamar studied on the module.

4.  Crowdfunding and subscription models used by independent publishers

arguably offer a potential solution to the “rationalizing/racializing logic” (Anamik Saha) of cultural production. Considering this argument, analyse the extent to which gatekeeping, in the literal AND/OR literary sense, is thematized in The Gurugu Pledge AND/OR The Good Immigrant.