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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Spring 2021 |
Registration ID | ENGLB279001 |
Course Title | Intro to African Literature |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Comparative Literature |
Instructor | Beard,Linda-Susan |
Times and Days | TF 11:10am-12:30pm
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Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1287 Taking into account the oral, written, aural, and visual forms of African “texts” over several thousand years, this course will explore literary production, intertextuality, translation, and audience/critical reception. Representative works to be studied include oral traditions, the Sundiata and Mwindo epics, the plays of Wole Soyinka and his Burden of History, the Muse of Forgiveness; and the work of Sembène Ousmane, Bessie Head, Ayi Kwei Armah, Mariama Bâ, Naguib Mahfouz, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Yvonne Vera, and others. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Haverford: Humanities (HU) ( ) Enrollment Cap: 25; If the course exceeds the enrollment cap the following criteria will be used for the lottery: Other; |
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