African Literature and Society
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F 2-5
This team-taught course will introduce graduate students to issues in both Anglophone and Francophone African Literature. The course is organized under the following headings: Reclaiming the African Past, Colonial Relationships, National Consciousness, Gender and Power, Urban Perspectives, Elites and Dictatorships, and, finally, Immigration, Exile, and Metissage. We will discuss novels by both established and emerging writers, including Chinua Achebe, Ngugi Wa Thiong'O, Sembene Ousmane, Buchi Emecheta, Mariama Ba, Henri Lopes, Bessie Head, Amadou Kourouma, Nozipo Maraire, and Zakes Mda. Some films and works in other genres may also be included. Four or five lectures by visiting scholars and/or writers, representing the cutting edge of new research and writing, will be considered as part of the seminar.
updated 2006-03-28
