AFST 210

Fall 2018 All Classes

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Intro to Mod African Lit

Credit: 3 hours.

Significant contemporary African writings depicting the history and cultural traditions of African peoples.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Lit & Arts

Cultural Studies - Non-West

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AFST 210 class schedule data for fall 2018
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	47890	Lecture-Discussion	M	12:00PM -12:50PM	MWF	English Building	Basu, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/18-12/12/18 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts, and Cultural Studies - Non-West course. Section Info: This course will attempt to express the diversity of a continent through a reading of texts from Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, South Africa, and Sudan. At the same time however, the course will also endeavor to highlight the connections and links between representative writings from different regions of the continent. In demonstrating that all the regions we somewhat loosely group together as ‘modern Africa’ are also congruous in so far as they were all irredeemably transformed by the experience of colonialism, the course will show how the term modern calls for precisely such an inter-textual understanding. At the end of this course however, students should not only be familiar with symptomatic texts of African literature, but also should be able to read, write, and, think about these texts in an insightful manner, concentrating on developing abilities such as close-reading, comparative analysis, and argumentative logic.