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23165-01 - Seminar: "Living the City" in Recent South African Fiction (3 CP)
| Semester | fall semester 2009 |
| 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 mirroring the living and expanding city. Thus, "Johannesburg. The Elusive Metropolis", eds. Nuttall and Mbembe, will be the starting point of our journey through South African cityscapes and landscapes reflected in recent fiction. |
| Bibliography | Texts by among others: - Zakes Mda, "The Madonna of Excelsior" - Ivan Vladislavić, "Propaganda by Monuments" - Katharina Ley, Cristina Karrer, "Überlebenskünstlerinnen: Frauen in Südafrika" - Rayda Jacobs, "Confessions of a Gambler", "Postcards from South Africa" |
| Comments | Gastlehrauftrag der Carl Schlettwein-Stiftung This Seminar serves as a Preparatory Course for the Joint SA-CH Workshop on Friday, 4 December 2009 at the English Seminar, with South African Scholars Gerald Gaylard, Kirby Mania, Sheila Meintjes, Michael Titlestad, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and doctoral students and professors involved in the project "Living the City" at the University of Basel. |
| Admission requirements | Open to students who have completed their second year proseminar paper in Literature and Culture Studies. |
| Course application | Please register by e-mail to therese.steffen@unibas.ch prior to the first meeting. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
| Modules |
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 |