CWL 210

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Introduction to Modern African Literature

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Credit: 3 hours.

Same as AFST 210 and ENGL 211. See AFST 210.

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

Cultural Studies - Non-West

Humanities – Lit & Arts

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CWL 210 class schedule data for spring 2021
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	47159	Online	P	10:00AM -10:50AM	MWF	n.a.	Basu, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/25/21-05/05/21 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts, and Cultural Studies - Non-West course. Section Info: Modern African literature is the literature of a continent that includes many nation-states, languages, and ethnicities. It is therefore by no means a homogenous entity, and in many ways our course attempts to express this very diversity through a reading of texts from Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Kenya, South Africa, and Sudan. At the same time however, “Introduction to Modern African Literature” also endeavors to highlight the connections and links between representative writings from different regions of the continent. Indeed, the term modern calls for precisely such an inter-connected understanding. After all the regions we somewhat loosely group together as ‘modern Africa’ are also congruous in so far as they were almost all irredeemably transformed by the experience of colonialism. The term ‘modern’ has in fact since then come to be inextricably tied to the distinct twists and turns of the colonial encounter. To follow these twists and turns, we will read through a wide array of literary material ranging from novels and plays to short stories, poems, and critical essays. You will notice right away that we are not following a necessarily chronological approach in our reading of this literature, but rather one that allows us to foreground the above thematic connections.