Gwybodaeth Modiwlau

Module Identifier

WL31520

Module Title

Post-Colonial African Literature in English

Academic Year

2013/2014

Co-ordinator

Professor Timothy Stephen 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

_Section A - EAST AND WEST AFRICA: "LEARNING ME YOUR LANGUAGE"

_Seminar 1: Africa and Colonialism

Introduction: Africa and its (post)colonial history

_Seminars 2 & 3: Theorising Colonialism: Language and National Identity

Text: Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Petals of Blood

_Seminar 4: Chinua Achebe - "Man of Two Worlds"

Text: Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease

_Seminar 5: African Women Writing

Text: Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions

_Section B - SOUTH AFRICA: "AFRIKA MAYIBUYE"

_Seminar 6: Sophiatown and "District Six": Township Renaissance and Resistance

Text: Alex La Guma, The Time of the Butcherbird

_Seminar 7: Post-Sharpeville Protest

Text: Mbulelo Mzamane (ed.), Hungry Flames and Other Black South African Short Stories

_Seminar 8: 1970s: Black Consciousness and the Soweto Era

Text: Adam Schwartzman (ed.), Ten South African Poets

_Seminar 9. Where Do Whites Fit In?

Text: Nadine Gordimer, Burger's Daughter

_Seminar 10: Post-Apartheid Narratives?

Text: Mandla Langa, The Memory of Stones

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