AWS 2080 Postcolonial African World Literatures

The course examines the current literary theories and critical approaches implicit in the concepts of the postcolonial as applied to Continental and African-diaspora texts. We shall focus on core texts originally written or spoken in African languages, English, and French, with special emphasis on their specific ethnic mythologies, languages, knowledge and memory systems, aesthetic and discursive principles. The course also raises fundamental questions about the colonization and extradition of black and non-western literatures in the Euroacademy under the rubics of “New Literatures in English” and “Francophone Literature.”
Credits: 3.0