English Literature A-Level
Oppression and domination as genre-defining concerns
What Oppression and domination as genre-defining concerns means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Every set text places oppression and domination at its centre, whether colonial, racial, gendered, economic, religious or political.
Topics that use Oppression and domination as genre-defining concerns
- Elements of political and social protest writing (AQA A-Level)
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- Ambition and power
- Culture, history and continuity over time
- Domestic and interior life under oppression
- Gender politics
- Genre
- Historical and political drama
- Institutional authority
- Institutions, hierarchy and control
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