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Campus | Haverford |
Semester | Fall 2023 |
Registration ID | ENGLH376A001 |
Course Title | Literature and Politics of South African Apartheid |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Africana Studies |
Instructor | McGrane,Laura |
Times and Days | W 01:30pm-03:55pm
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Room Location | UN111 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2641 This course explores the history and historiography of South African apartheid from its inception in 1948 to its democratic overthrow in 1994. We will consider the interplay between complex definitions of race, gender, nation and difference in novels, plays, and poetry written during the apartheid years. We will also discuss the tension between an ethics and aesthetics of literary production in a time of political oppression. What would it mean for one to write an apolitical text in a cultural space rife with racial and social tensions? Authors will include Nadine Gordimer, Alan Paton, J.M.Coetzee, Bessie Head, and Alex La Guma. Crosslisted with Africana Studies.; Enrollment Limit: 15; Lottery Preferences: 1. English majors, 2. Africana Studies concentrators, then all others by class year. Div: III; Humanities, A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (; Hav: HU, A) |
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