| Kommentar |
This course aims at introducing Bachelor students to the evolution of African literary canons from the late 19th to the 21st centuries. Emphasis will be laid on acquainting students to central debates that have preoccupied African Writers and how these debates have unmasked the complexities of African societies before and at the dawn of colonialization. In exploring the texts, developing basic skills such as reading, interpreting, analysing and critiquing novels, short stories, drama, and poetry will be a major objective of the seminar. Further, debates regarding the historical and cultural contexts of the literary productions shall be engaged in the course of the seminar. To have a better appreciation of African literatures, texts and critical discourse from the African Diaspora shall be part of the literary corpus. We will also discuss major theoretical approaches to literature such as, structuralism, narratology, new historicism, and African feminist critical perspectives. The postcolonial theory will, however, be a major critical discourse in the seminar. Students will be expected to give short presentations on some of the important topics and texts listed for the seminar. |
| Literatur |
Selected Reading: Anne Mcclintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and sexuality in the Colonial Context, Routledge, 1995.
Edward Said, Orientalism: Western Conception of the Orient, Penguin, 2003
Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of language in African Literatures, Boydell& Brewer, 2015. |
