Gwybodaeth Modiwlau

Module Identifier

EN34320

Module Title

POST-COLONIAL AFRICAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

Academic Year

2011/2012

Co-ordinator

Professor Professor Tim Woods

Semester

Intended for use in future years

Course Delivery

Delivery Type	Delivery length / details
Seminars / Tutorials	20 Hours. Seminar. 10 x 2 hrs

Assessment

Assessment Type	Assessment length / details	Proportion
Semester Assessment	2 essays (2,500 words each) Continuous Assessment:	100%
Supplementary Assessment	Resubmit any failed elements and/or make good any missing elements. Where this involves re-submission of work, a new topic must be selected.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this module, student should typically be able to:

1. critically review and appraise the main issue in debates about African Literature;

2. relate the principal theories and practices of African postcolonial theory to the set texts;

3. describe and analyse the broad stylistic concerns of African literary forms;

4. demonstrate an understanding of the development of South African literature in its historical and political contexts;

5. exercise critical judgement on the range of literary material chosen for study;

6. engage in coherent oral discussion of the texts and background material;

7. discuss and illustrate the subject in a well-structured and argued manner.

Brief description

This option will introduce students to African literatures written in English, in the context of recent debates in postcolonial theory. It will focus upon writing and national identity, colonialism and memory and the representations of racism in African writing. Section A will concentrate on East and West African writing, and Section B will scrutinise South African writing, and the politics of apartheid and its aftermath.