Gwybodaeth Modiwlau
Course Delivery
Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
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Seminars / Tutorials | 20 Hours. Seminar. 10 x 2 hrs |
Assessment
Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
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Semester Assessment | 2 essays (2,500 words each) Continuous Assessment: | 100% |
Supplementary Assessment | Resubmit any failed elements and/or make good any missing elements. Where this involves re-submission of work, a new topic must be selected. |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this module, student should typically be able to:
1. critically review and appraise the main issue in debates about African Literature;
2. relate the principal theories and practices of African postcolonial theory to the set texts;
3. describe and analyse the broad stylistic concerns of African literary forms;
4. demonstrate an understanding of the development of South African literature in its historical and political contexts;
5. exercise critical judgement on the range of literary material chosen for study;
6. engage in coherent oral discussion of the texts and background material;
7. discuss and illustrate the subject in a well-structured and argued manner.
Brief description
_Seminar 1: Africa and Colonialism
- Introduction: Africa and its (post)colonial history
- Text: Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Petals of Blood
- Text: Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease
- Text: Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions
_Seminar 6: Sophiatown and "District Six": Township Renaissance and Resistance
- Text: Alex La Guma, The Time of the Butcherbird
- Text: Mbulelo Mzamane (ed.), Hungry Flames and Other Black South African Short Stories
- Text: Adam Schwartzman (ed.), Ten South African Poets
- Text: Nadine Gordimer, Burger's Daughter
- Text: Mandla Langa, The Memory of Stones
Content
_Seminar 1: Africa and Colonialism
- Introduction: Africa and its (post)colonial history
- Text: Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Petals of Blood
- Text: Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease
- Text: Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions
_Seminar 6: Sophiatown and "District Six": Township Renaissance and Resistance
- Text: Alex La Guma, The Time of the Butcherbird
- Text: Mbulelo Mzamane (ed.), Hungry Flames and Other Black South African Short Stories
- Text: Adam Schwartzman (ed.), Ten South African Poets
- Text: Nadine Gordimer, Burger's Daughter
- Text: Mandla Langa, The Memory of Stones
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 6