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135114 SE BA-SE: "Cats, Dogs, Chameleons"? Mapping Literature Nobel Laureates from 'Africa' (2024S)

7.50 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Finno-Ugristik, Nederlandistik, Skandinavistik und Vergl.Literaturw.
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max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

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Rémi Tchokothe

Donnerstag 07.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Donnerstag 14.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Donnerstag 21.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
Donnerstag 11.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
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Donnerstag 25.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
Donnerstag 16.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Donnerstag 23.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Donnerstag 06.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
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Donnerstag 20.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
Donnerstag 27.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital

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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

Goals

1. To outline a literary, sociological, and linguistic biography of literature Nobel laureates from Africa.
2. To appraise the knowledgeS their texts produce about ‘Africa’.
3. To highlight the entanglements between literatures from ‚Africa‘ and the ‚World‘.
4. To encourage my co-teachers to develop a critical reading of the politics and polemics of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
5. To develop comparative research and presentation skills.

Content

Selected literary works; essays; book chapters; reports; critical analytical papers; acceptance speeches, and short video material will be read, viewed in small groups, and discussed in class.

Methods

1. Group work throughout the semester, peer-instruction and teacher-instruction
2. Group research and oral presentations on selected topics and Nobel laureates
3. Active participation in class discussions

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel


1. Group research and group oral presentations (30%)
2. Submission of a 10-page essay at the end of the semester (70%) (Generative AI tools are not allowed)

NB: Students who took this Proseminar for Module 4 during the Winter Term 2021/2022 cannot take this course as a BA Seminar.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

1. Reading of selected material and active participation in class
2. Group presentation (30%) of the final grade
3. Individual essay (70% of the final grade)

Prüfungsstoff

1. Knowledge of the selected reading
2. Critical reading, comparative thinking, and handling
3. Proper research and academic writing

Literatur

Introductory Readings

Chamoiseau, Patrick. 2017. Frères Migrants. Seuil: Paris
Glissant, Edouard. 1996. Introduction à une poétique du divers. Paris: Gallimard.
Liyong, Taban lo. 2003. « V.S. Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Nobel Literature Prizes and African Writers as Cats, Dogs and Chameleons ». In: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 38 (1). South Africa: University of Venda, 1 3. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989404381002
Meyers, Jeffrey. 2007. « The Literary Politics of the Nobel Prize ». In: The Antioch Review 65 (2), 214 223. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40284378

Selected works by Nobelists (to be read in groups!)

Coetzee, John Maxwell. 1982. Waiting for the Barbarians. Penguin Books.
Gurnah, Abdulrazak. 2020. Afterlives. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Gordimer, Nadine. 2010. Life Times, stories, 1952-2007. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Mahfouz, Naguib, Stewart, Philip (translator). 1997. Children of Gebelaawi. Passeggiata Press.
Soyinka, Wole. 1963. A Dance of the Forests. Oxford University Press.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

BA M11

Letzte Änderung: Mo 19.02.2024 16:26