Universität Wien

135043 PS "Cats, Dogs, Chameleons"? Mapping Literature Nobel Laureates from ‘Africa’ (2021W)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Europäische und Vergleichende Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
Continuous assessment of course work
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Details

max. 30 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Important update: September 21, 2021!
due to the important number of participants (happy about that!) and with regard to Covid-regulations on the capacity of seminar rooms, the course will take place DIGITALLY throughout!
More to follow at the beginning of the semester.
Best regards. Rémi Tchokothe

  • Tuesday 05.10. 16:00 - 17:30 Digital
  • Tuesday 12.10. 16:00 - 17:30 Digital
  • Tuesday 19.10. 16:00 - 17:30 Digital
  • Tuesday 09.11. 16:00 - 17:30 Digital
  • Tuesday 16.11. 16:00 - 17:30 Digital
  • Tuesday 23.11. 16:00 - 17:30 Digital
  • Tuesday 30.11. 16:00 - 17:30 Digital
  • Tuesday 07.12. 16:00 - 17:30 Digital
  • Tuesday 14.12. 16:00 - 17:30 Digital
  • Tuesday 11.01. 16:00 - 17:30 Digital
  • Tuesday 18.01. 16:00 - 17:30 Digital
  • Tuesday 25.01. 16:00 - 17:30 Digital

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

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 bring to light the entanglements between works of literature 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
2. Group research and oral presentations on selected topics/Nobel laureates
3. Active participation in class (digital and/or on-site)

Assessment and permitted materials

Expectations on students and breakdown of the final grade

1. Regular and active participation in class
2. Group oral presentations
3. Critical reading, thinking, handling, and writing
4. Submission of a short report on another group presentation (30%)
5. Submission of a 10 pages group essay at the end of the semester (70%)

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Expectations on students and breakdown of the final grade

1. Regular and active participation in class
2. Group oral presentations
3. Critical reading, thinking, handling, and writing
4. Submission of a short report on another group presentation (30%)
5. Submission of a 10 pages group essay at the end of the semester (70%)

Examination topics

Submission of a short report on another group presentation (30%)
Submission of a 10 pages group essay at the end of the semester (70%)

Reading list

Reading list (No worries! To be read in groups!)

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.
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.

Association in the course directory

BA M4

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