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140058 VO Issues in African Literature: Past and Present (2019W)

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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

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