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143201 VO Writing and Publishing in Contemporary East Africa (2024S)

3.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 14 - Orientalistik, Afrikanistik, Indologie und Tibetologie
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max. 20 participants
Language: German

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Friday 08.03. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
  • Friday 15.03. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
  • Friday 22.03. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
  • Friday 12.04. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
  • Friday 19.04. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
  • Friday 26.04. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
  • Friday 03.05. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
  • Friday 10.05. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
  • Friday 17.05. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
  • Friday 24.05. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
  • Friday 31.05. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
  • Friday 07.06. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
  • Friday 14.06. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
  • Friday 21.06. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06

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Aims, contents and method of the course

Over the last two decades, the African literary landscape has changed dramatically. Web publishing, literary blogs and online magazines in the field of digital media, new art and literature initiatives and funding channels as well as transnational networks between the diaspora and the continent are bringing a new dynamic to cultural production. This course takes a look at organisations and artists, media and publishers in the East African region.
After a general introduction, we will focus on individual initiatives and their publications and discuss them in the context of language policy and multilingualism, education, literature and gender in national and transnational contexts. Lecture with PowerPoint, reading and discussion of texts.
The aim of the course is a critical understanding of the social, cultural and political dimensions of writing and publishing in the East African context. The lecture builds on the content of the lecture "Literatures of East Africa" in WS 2023/24, but can also be attended independently of it.

Assessment and permitted materials

Written examination. In the written exam, you can choose two out of a total of five questions on the aspects of East African literary history covered in the lecture. The exam is open book.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Much of the course reading is in English. Knowledge of English is therefore required, knowledge of French is of advantage.

Examination topics

Lecture contents (lecture, discussions and powerpoints), selected course literature and selected literary texts (will be anounced at the beginning of the semester).

Reading list

Diegner, Lutz, und Frank Schulze-Engler, Hrsg. Habari Ya English? What about Kiswahili?: East Africa as a Literary and Linguistic Contact Zone ; [Selected Papers from a Homonymic Symposium Held in February 2011 at Goethe University Frankfurt]. Matatu 46. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2015.

Gikandi, Simon, und Evan Mwangi, Hrsg. The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English since 1945. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.

Lihamba, Amandina, Hrsg. Women Writing Africa: The East Africa Region. 1st ed. The women writing Africa project, v. 3. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2007.

Strauhs, Doreen. African Literary NGOs: Power, Politics, and Participation. First edition. New York, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Association in the course directory

ÜAL 1, ÜAL 2, SAL-A, SAL-B
EC-148, EC-647
MA: SAL.VO.1, SAL.VO.2

Last modified: Fr 12.07.2024 08:05