135053 PS Soz.geschichte (PS): Introduction to African Literature in English (2019W)
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").
- Anmeldung von Mo 02.09.2019 00:01 bis Mo 23.09.2019 23:59
- Abmeldung bis Do 31.10.2019 23:59
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max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch
Lehrende
Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert
- Montag 07.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
- Montag 14.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
- Montag 21.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
- Montag 28.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
- Montag 04.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
- Montag 11.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
- Montag 18.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
- Montag 25.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
- Montag 02.12. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
- Montag 09.12. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
- Montag 16.12. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
- Montag 13.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
- Montag 20.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
- Montag 27.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 8 Sensengasse 3a 5.OG
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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung
Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel
- weekly response paper (500 words) 20%
-oral presentation 10%
-participation in class discussion 20%
-final written exam, which will include Yes/No, multiple choice and short essay questions 50%
Minimum requirement for the exam: 50% correct answers
-oral presentation 10%
-participation in class discussion 20%
-final written exam, which will include Yes/No, multiple choice and short essay questions 50%
Minimum requirement for the exam: 50% correct answers
Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab
- weekly response paper (500 words) 20%
-oral presentation 20%
-participation in class discussion 10%
-final written exam, which will include Yes/No, multiple choice and short essay questions 50%
Minimum requirement for the exam: 50% correct answers
-oral presentation 20%
-participation in class discussion 10%
-final written exam, which will include Yes/No, multiple choice and short essay questions 50%
Minimum requirement for the exam: 50% correct answers
Prüfungsstoff
• literature as an instrument of anti-colonial resistance and decolonization
• the construction of ethnic and national identities in literature
• language choice
• the clash between tradition and modernity
• the representation of women and feminism
• the criticism of African literature
• the process of canonization and the material aspects of publishing
• appropriation vs. abrogation
• social realism versus modernism
• writing back
• the Black writing model
• the influence of African orality and Western forms on the African novel
• the representation of trauma
• the style and function of popular literature
• African identity and the postcolonial self
• the position of African literature in world literature
• the “Afropolitan” and diasporic identities versus Afrocentric and local ones
• the influence of liberal humanist, feminist, Marxist, post-structuralist, postcolonialist and postmodernist discourses on African identities and literatures
• the construction of ethnic and national identities in literature
• language choice
• the clash between tradition and modernity
• the representation of women and feminism
• the criticism of African literature
• the process of canonization and the material aspects of publishing
• appropriation vs. abrogation
• social realism versus modernism
• writing back
• the Black writing model
• the influence of African orality and Western forms on the African novel
• the representation of trauma
• the style and function of popular literature
• African identity and the postcolonial self
• the position of African literature in world literature
• the “Afropolitan” and diasporic identities versus Afrocentric and local ones
• the influence of liberal humanist, feminist, Marxist, post-structuralist, postcolonialist and postmodernist discourses on African identities and literatures
Literatur
Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis
BA M5
Letzte Änderung: Do 04.07.2024 00:13
• Identify, analyse and understand key political, aesthetic and philosophical issues in African literature
• apply theory to a variety of literary texts and reflect critically on the relations between primary texts and relevant secondary texts
• discriminate between ideas and define personal positions and justify them intellectuallyCONTENTS: This course will introduce African literature in English in its historical, philosophical and aesthetic context. Based on representative short texts (mainly short stories and essays) by some of the best-known authors of the 20th and 21st century, it will focus on the changing role of African literature in the creation of African postcolonial identities and the coming to terms with traumatic history and troubled present times. Issues and themes to be explored include the role of African literature in anti-colonial resistance and decolonization, the language of African literature, Afrocentrism vs. Afropolitanism, the influence of African orality and Western genres on postcolonial African literary aesthetics, the clash between tradition and modernity, the construction of national and ethnic identities in literature, and the position of Anglophone African literature within world literature.METHOD: seminar