Course ID
040821
Course Description
This course examines literary works written in English by African authors. The term 'Anglophone' acknowledges the common colonial relationship among the diverse authors and texts on the reading list. While the linguistic tradition is a unifying concept, this course also seeks to critically interrogate that relationship. Discussions will familiarize students with discursive trends and debates, such as aesthetics and philosophies, colonialism and decolonialism, independence and nation-building, gender and race, and transnationalism and globalism, among others. Coursework will provide historical, cultural, and political contexts, as well as relevant theoretical frameworks such as postcolonial literary theory.
Min Units
3
Max Units
3
Repeatable for Credit
No
Grading Basis
GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E
Career
Undergraduate
Course Attributes
WE - WEC (Writing Emphasis Course)
Component
Lecture
Optional Component
No