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35050-01 - Lecture: South African Literature: A Survey 2 CP

Semester fall semester 2013
Course frequency Once only
Lecturers Therese Steffen (therese.steffen@unibas.ch, Assessor)
Content South Africa has produced, and continues to produce, an extraordinarily rich and varied literary output, by men and women of all races and in several languages. This lecture course will focus on the South African novel written in English from the 1880's to the present. The course will offer a survey and will raise questions about - among other things - the distinctivenesss of South African writing, its relationship to South African sociohistoric circumstances in the apartheid and post-apartheid period. No prior familiarity with South African writing will be assumed.
Bibliography Novels by, among others, Olive Schreiner, Sol Plaatje, Alan Paton, Peter Abrahams, Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee, Njabulo Ndebele, Zoë Wicomb, Ivan Vladislavić, Zakes Mda.

A READER will be available at dings-shop after the first week of the semester.

 

Admission requirements Open to everyone
Language of instruction English
Use of digital media No specific media used
Course auditors welcome

 

Interval Weekday Time Room

No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.

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Assessment format record of achievement
Assessment details Final written assessment
Assessment registration/deregistration Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required
Repeat examination one repetition, repetition counts
Scale Pass / Fail
Repeated registration no repetition
Responsible faculty Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch
Offered by Fachbereich Englische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft

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