Week 1 - 21 Feb
Introduction to the course
Course requirements: active attendance (2 absences allowed) and in-class discussions; reading the texts and answering the study questions in written; an essay
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Course objectives
• The course is aimed at reading and
interpretation of trailblazing texts by
authors who
helped define the field of African literature in English, such
as those written
by Amos Tutuola or Buchi Emecheta. Individual texts
will be discussed
in the context of the writers' lives, inextricably linked to
wider social,
political and cultural structures of colonial and postcolonial
times in Africa
and the UK. The course will introduce a variety of genres:
essays, poems,
short stories, novels, plays. This approach will enable the
students to
appreciate the wealth and diversity of African literature in
English,
including its shift towards a more emancipated position among
other literatures in English.
LITERATURE
Ashcroft, B. et al. (2001). The Empire Writes Back, London: Routledge.
Said, E. (1993). Culture and Imperialism, London: Ghatto and Windus.
Wisker, G. (2007). Key Concepts in Postcolonial Literature, Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan
1.
Introduction 21 2
2. Joseph
Conrad 28 2
3. Chinua Achebe 6 3
4. Derek Walcott 13 3
5.
6. Tanure
Ojaide 27 3
7. Buchi
Emecheta 3 4
8 Ngugi wa
Thiong’o 10 4
9. Tsitsi
Dangarembga 17 4
10. Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie 24 4
11.
Amos
Tutuola (self-study) 1 5
12. 8 5
13 Nadine
Gordimer 15 5