ADVANCED TOPICS IN AFRICAN LITERATURE

AFRICAN 201

Survey of African literary traditions and introduction to literary analysis.

AFRICAN 412

A critical study of the major works.

AFRICAN 605

Introduces foundational texts in the study of modern Africa and the social, political, and economic contexts of the continent's cultural production and productivity. Conceptual explorations of interesting issues such as the African encounter with Europe, anticolonialism, race, racialism, and subjectivity, African and European languages and epistemology, transformations in gendered structures, and the environment, and the circulation and consumption of cultural forms and practices. Examines the long histories and theories of cultural production and practices in Africa, the local/global provenance of forms and styles, and the contexts of their local, national, and global circulation and consumption. Promotes critical thinking by putting like and unlike texts together and considering rhetoric and implied meanings, all in the context of Africa's interactive history with the world in the modern era.

AFROAMER/ENGL 672

An intensive analysis of specific themes in the Afro-American experience. Subjects vary with instructor.

AFRICAN 901

Special topics in modern African literature, covering various genres (prose, poetry, drama).