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140058 VO Issues in African Literature: Past and Present (2019W)
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27.04.2020
This exam has two options:
1) final essay written at home and submitted by email
2) digital exam written at home in real time and submitted by email. This will be a modified exam and will contain text analysis only. You will be given a number of excerpts from texts we analysed in class and asked to give a contextualized interpretation.
1) final essay written at home and submitted by email
2) digital exam written at home in real time and submitted by email. This will be a modified exam and will contain text analysis only. You will be given a number of excerpts from texts we analysed in class and asked to give a contextualized interpretation.
An/Abmeldung
Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").
- Anmeldung von Mo 06.04.2020 08:00 bis So 26.04.2020 23:59
- Abmeldung bis So 26.04.2020 23:59
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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
• the influence of African orality and Western genres on postcolonial African literary aesthetics (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
• the influence of African orality and Western genres on postcolonial African literary aesthetics (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
Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel
Exam or final essay (3500 words).
Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab
Exam (at least 50% correct answers) or final essay (3500 words). 3 correction attempts are possible.
Letzte Änderung: Fr 12.05.2023 00:16