140264 VO Resistance and Social Engagement in Postcolonial African Literature: Africa in the Global Context (2016S)
Afrika im globalen Kontext
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Language: English
Examination dates
Wednesday
20.07.2016
Thursday
04.08.2016
Wednesday
07.09.2016
Thursday
15.09.2016
Saturday
15.07.2017
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Tuesday
08.03.
15:00 - 17:00
Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-03
Tuesday
15.03.
15:00 - 17:00
Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-03
Tuesday
05.04.
15:00 - 17:00
Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-03
Tuesday
12.04.
15:00 - 17:00
Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-03
Tuesday
19.04.
15:00 - 17:00
Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-03
Tuesday
26.04.
15:00 - 17:00
Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-03
Tuesday
03.05.
15:00 - 17:00
Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-03
Tuesday
10.05.
15:00 - 17:00
Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-03
Tuesday
24.05.
15:00 - 17:00
Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-03
Tuesday
31.05.
15:00 - 17:00
Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-03
Tuesday
07.06.
15:00 - 17:00
Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-03
Tuesday
14.06.
15:00 - 17:00
Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-03
Tuesday
21.06.
15:00 - 17:00
Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-03
Tuesday
28.06.
15:00 - 17:00
Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-03
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Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
Final essay (3,500 words), due Sept. 15, 2016. Correction essays can be submitted by the end of January 2017 (3 attempts at correction are possible). January 31, 2017 is the last date for essay submission.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
To complete this course, the student must write the final essay on one of the topics given. There will be at least 20 different topics, each of which concerns 1 or 2 novels, and each student is free to choose any topic. This is an argumentative essay supported with evidence from primary texts and engagement with secondary sources. The essay tests the knowledge of the text and context, close reading skills, inference (deduction), ability to think critically, make connections, and express own opinions. Original observations or arguments are not required to pass but are required if the students wants to earn the highest mark.Assessment criteria (in the order of importance):
1) The soundness and logic of the argument
2) The ability to identify, analyse and understand the theoretical, historical, and political context of the texts and to make connections
3) The ability to read text closely and interpret both form and content
4) The ability to reflect critically on the relations between primary texts and relevant secondary texts, instead of just citing critics as a source of authority and interpretation
5) Grammar and composition
6) Presentation and style
1) The soundness and logic of the argument
2) The ability to identify, analyse and understand the theoretical, historical, and political context of the texts and to make connections
3) The ability to read text closely and interpret both form and content
4) The ability to reflect critically on the relations between primary texts and relevant secondary texts, instead of just citing critics as a source of authority and interpretation
5) Grammar and composition
6) Presentation and style
Examination topics
Reading list
Primary texts:
Chinua Achebe, A Man of the People (1966) (Nigeria)
Buchi Emecheta, Second-Class Citizen (1974), In the Ditch (1972) (Nigeria)
Peter Abrahams, Tell Freedom (1954) (South Africa)
Alex La Guma, A Walk in the Night (1962) (South Africa)
Kabelo Sello Duiker, Thirteen Cents (2000)(South Africa)
Damon Galgut, The Good Doctor (2003) (South Africa)
Yvonne Vera, The Stone Virgins (2002) (Zimbabwe)
Chielo Zona Eze, The Trial of Robert Mugabe (2009) (Zimbabwe)
State of the Nation: Contemp. Zimbabwean Poetry (2009), eds. T. Mushakavanhu and D. Nettleingham
Ngugi wa Thiongo, Wizard of the Crow (2006) (Kenya)
Nuruddin Farah, Crossbones (2011) (Somalia)
Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Tail of the Blue Bird (2010) (Ghana)
Sefi Atta, News from Home (2009) (Nigeria)
Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men (2006) (Lybia)
Shailja Patel, Migritude (2010) (Kenya)
Monica Arac de Nyeko, Jambula Tree (2007) (Uganda)
Doreen Baingana, Tropical Fish (2005) (Uganda)
Taiye Selasi, The Sex Lives of African Girls (2011) (Nigeria-Ghana-USA)Secondary texts:
Madhu Krishnan, Contemporary African Literature in English: Global Locations, Postcolonial Identifications (2014)
Chielozona Eze, Postcolonial Imagination and Moral Representations in African Literature and Culture (2011)
Simon Gikandi, Reading the African Novel (1987)
Mineke Schipper, African Literature and Literary Theory (1989)
Neil Lazarus, Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction (1990)
Simon Gikandi, Reading Chinua Achebe (1991)
Simon Gikandi, Ngugi wa Thiongo (2000)
Katherine Fishburn, Reading Buchi Emecheta: cross-cultural conversations (1995)
Derek Wright, The Novels of Nuruddin Farah (1994)
Susan Andrade, The nation writ small: African fictions and feminisms, 1958-1988 (2011)
Ato Quayson, Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing (1997)
Brenda Cooper, Magical Realism in West African Fiction (1998)
Michael Chapman, Southern African Literatures (1996)
David Attwell, The Cambridge History of South African Literature (2000)
Jaspal K. Singh, ed., Trauma, Resistance, Reconstruction in Post-1994 South African Writing (2010)
Robert Muponde, Ranka Primorac, eds., Versions of Zimbabwe: New Approaches to Literature and Culture (2005)
JoAnn McGregor and Ranka Primorac, eds., Zimbabwes New Diaspora: Displacement and the Cultural Politics of Survival (2010)
Akin Adesokan, Postcolonial Artists and Global Aesthetics (2011)
Tanure Ojaide, Contemporary African Literature: New Approaches (2012)
Tejumola Olaniyan and Ato Quayson, eds., African Literature: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory (2007)
Chinua Achebe, A Man of the People (1966) (Nigeria)
Buchi Emecheta, Second-Class Citizen (1974), In the Ditch (1972) (Nigeria)
Peter Abrahams, Tell Freedom (1954) (South Africa)
Alex La Guma, A Walk in the Night (1962) (South Africa)
Kabelo Sello Duiker, Thirteen Cents (2000)(South Africa)
Damon Galgut, The Good Doctor (2003) (South Africa)
Yvonne Vera, The Stone Virgins (2002) (Zimbabwe)
Chielo Zona Eze, The Trial of Robert Mugabe (2009) (Zimbabwe)
State of the Nation: Contemp. Zimbabwean Poetry (2009), eds. T. Mushakavanhu and D. Nettleingham
Ngugi wa Thiongo, Wizard of the Crow (2006) (Kenya)
Nuruddin Farah, Crossbones (2011) (Somalia)
Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Tail of the Blue Bird (2010) (Ghana)
Sefi Atta, News from Home (2009) (Nigeria)
Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men (2006) (Lybia)
Shailja Patel, Migritude (2010) (Kenya)
Monica Arac de Nyeko, Jambula Tree (2007) (Uganda)
Doreen Baingana, Tropical Fish (2005) (Uganda)
Taiye Selasi, The Sex Lives of African Girls (2011) (Nigeria-Ghana-USA)Secondary texts:
Madhu Krishnan, Contemporary African Literature in English: Global Locations, Postcolonial Identifications (2014)
Chielozona Eze, Postcolonial Imagination and Moral Representations in African Literature and Culture (2011)
Simon Gikandi, Reading the African Novel (1987)
Mineke Schipper, African Literature and Literary Theory (1989)
Neil Lazarus, Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction (1990)
Simon Gikandi, Reading Chinua Achebe (1991)
Simon Gikandi, Ngugi wa Thiongo (2000)
Katherine Fishburn, Reading Buchi Emecheta: cross-cultural conversations (1995)
Derek Wright, The Novels of Nuruddin Farah (1994)
Susan Andrade, The nation writ small: African fictions and feminisms, 1958-1988 (2011)
Ato Quayson, Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing (1997)
Brenda Cooper, Magical Realism in West African Fiction (1998)
Michael Chapman, Southern African Literatures (1996)
David Attwell, The Cambridge History of South African Literature (2000)
Jaspal K. Singh, ed., Trauma, Resistance, Reconstruction in Post-1994 South African Writing (2010)
Robert Muponde, Ranka Primorac, eds., Versions of Zimbabwe: New Approaches to Literature and Culture (2005)
JoAnn McGregor and Ranka Primorac, eds., Zimbabwes New Diaspora: Displacement and the Cultural Politics of Survival (2010)
Akin Adesokan, Postcolonial Artists and Global Aesthetics (2011)
Tanure Ojaide, Contemporary African Literature: New Approaches (2012)
Tejumola Olaniyan and Ato Quayson, eds., African Literature: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory (2007)
Association in the course directory
ÜAL 1, ÜAL2, EC-148, MA 844 M07
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On completion of this course the student will have developed the ability to:
identify, analyse and understand key political, sociological and aesthetic issues in contemporary African Anglophone writing
apply close reading skills to a variety of literary texts and be able to analyze them from a literary-critical perspective
reflect critically on the relations between primary texts and relevant secondary texts