AWS 2000 African World Literature Analysis

This course focuses on literary modes and concepts of orature and literature rooted in African and African diaspora aesthetic and philosophical traditions. It also provides a study of African-language and African-derived linguistic experimentations with received European languages in world black texts, African-world literary theory and critical approaches to oral and written materials and colonialist criticism. Special attention will be paid to methods of fieldwork in orature, print and electronic research, critical analysis, research writing and bibliography.
Credits: 3.0