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55638-01 - Forschungsseminar: Out of Africa: Novels in English from Chinua Achebe to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (4 KP)
| Semester | Herbstsemester 2019 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Therese Steffen (therese.steffen@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | This MA-Research Seminar seeks to explore selected major texts in English out of Africa in their respective sociohistoric context since the post-colonial era of the 1950s and 60s, including most recent transnational developments: broadly defined from Chinua Achebe to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The place of African culture within the post-colonial environment, the clash between tradition and modernity remains a central issue in the second half of the 20th century. So does the critique of corruption, cleptocracy and tyranny of the new post-colonial era. Female writers have successfully contributed to the opening up of tabooed issues: Higher education, mobility, independence, and equality emblematic in an increasing transnational trajectory. |
| Literatur | Texts by among others: Chinua Achebe, "Things Fall Apart", Amos Tutuola, "The Palm Wine Drinkard", Wole Soyinka, "King Baabu" (play), Ken Saro-Wiwa, "Soza Boy", "A Novel in Rotten English", Ngugi wa Thiong'o, "Decolonizing the Mind", Buchi Emecheta, "Joys of Motherhood", NoViolet Bulawayo, "We Need New Names", China Keitetsi, "Child Soldier: Fighting for my life". Tsitsi Dangarembga, "Nervous Conditions", J.M. Coetzee, "Disgrace". Zoë Wicomb, "Playing in the Light", SA slam poetry, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, "Americanah", Taiye Selasi, "Ghana Must Go", essays on "afropolitanism", "multilocalism". Texts will be available on the reserved shelf and at Buchhandlung zum Labyrinth. |
| Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung | Students wishing to participate should contact Therese Steffen <therese.steffen@unibas.ch> for details. |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul: Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies (Master Studienfach: Englisch) Modul: Fields: Media and Imagination (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul: Literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung (Master Studiengang: Literaturwissenschaft) Modul: Literaturgeschichte (Master Studiengang: Literaturwissenschaft) Modul: Research in Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies (Master Studienfach: Englisch) |
| Prüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Belegen bei Nichtbestehen | nicht wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Fachbereich Englische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft |