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| Semester | spring semester 2009 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | Therese Steffen (therese.steffen@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | Fiction after 2000 is at stake in this survey seminar on recent South African texts and contexts. The transition years after the end of apartheid have brought forth a range of novels dealing with the tensions between hope and despair, the rural and the urban, tradition and modernity, with shifts from racial tensions to class trouble or, with the struggle of former exiles to come to terms with post-apartheid conditions. A special focus will be on the South African dynamics transforming the big cities Johannesburg, Durban, and Cape Town. |
| Bibliography | Texts will include - Ivan Vladislaviċ, "Propaganda by Monuments", "Willem Boshoff"; - Zakes Mda, "Ways of Dying"; - Zoë Wicomb, "Playing in the Light"; - Sello K. Duiker, "Thirteen Cents", "The Quiet Violence of Dreams"; - Nadine Gordimer, "Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black: And Other Stories"; - Johan van Wyk, "Man Bitch"; - Fred Khumalo, "Bitches Brew". Our background text will be Rita Barnards "Apartheid and Beyond" (on the RS). Texts will be available on the Reserve Shelf (RS) or via the Labyrinth. |
| Admission requirements | Open to students who have completed their second year proseminar paper in Literature and Culture Studies. |
| Course application | Students wishing to participate should contact therese.steffen@unibas.ch for details. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Course auditors welcome |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
| Modules |
Interphilologisches Angebot: Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft (Bachelor's degree subject: Deutsche Philologie) Modul Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft (Master's degree subject: Modern German Literature) Modul Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft (Master's degree subject: German Literature) Modul Culture and Society (Master's degree program: African Studies) Modul English & American Literature (Master's degree subject: English) Modul Extending the View (Literary and Cultural Studies) (Bachelor's degree subject: Englisch) Modul Focusing on the Discipline (Literary and Cultural Studies) (Bachelor's degree subject: Englisch) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | t.b.a. |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | no repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Englisches Seminar |