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Vorlesungsverzeichnis >> Fakultät Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften >>
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South Africa and Nigeria in Postcolonial Discourse- Dozentinnen/Dozenten
- Emilija Lipovsek, Stevan Bradic
- Angaben
- Seminar/Hauptseminar
2 SWS
Zeit und Ort: Einzeltermin am 28.6.2019 10:00 - 17:00, U5/01.18; Einzeltermin am 29.6.2019 9:00 - 18:00, U5/02.18; Einzeltermin am 30.6.2019 9:00 - 17:00, U5/02.18
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- 1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies: Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies: Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.05.2019 (10:00) - 28.06.2019 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
- Inhalt
- J. M. Coetzee (1940) is arguably one of the most important contemporary South African novelists. Even with only five of the thirteen novels being set in South Africa, they all, to certain extent, address themes pertinent to the (post)colonial and apartheid situations: relations of power, colonial discourse, the other, racial segregation, the position of women, class relations, violence, South African liberalism and revolutionary activism, the relationship of South Africa’s peoples to the land and, not least, the politics of writing. His fiction is located “in the nexus of history and text”, and “explore[s] the tension between these polarities” (Attwell, 2-3), seeing the “South African situation [today] as only one manifestation of a wider historical situation to do with colonialism, late colonialism, neo colonialism” (Coetzee qtd. in Attwell, 14). Starting from his early masterpiece Waiting for the Barbarians (1980), moving to his puzzling work of ‘situational metafiction’ Foe (1986), and finishing with post-apartheid narrative of Disgrace (1999), this course will address the aforementioned issues, in an attempt to relate their political and poetic questions.
The second part of the seminar will discuss how postcolonial women writers depict Nigeria in their writings. The focus will be given to the novel-in-verse Lara by Bernardine Evaristo and memoir Red Dust Road by Jackie Kay through analysis of the heroines of mixed parentage and the relevance of their visits to Lagos and Abuja for the first time to renegotiate their British-Nigerian identity. The novels A Bit of Difference by Sefi Atta and Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, on the other hand, portray Nigerian-born female characters as returnees willing to settle down after a long period of studying and working abroad. It will be argued how all the protagonists eventually find themselves in the liminal space between the wish to belong to Nigeria and elsewhere.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Obligatory reading
Coetzee, J. M. Waiting for the Barbarians, London: Penguin Books, 1999.
--. Foe , London: Penguin Books, 1987.
--. Disgrace , London: Penguin Books, 2000.
--. "On Madness and Rivalry", Giving Offens e, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996.
B. Evaristo (2009, extended edition) Lara .
J. Kay (2010) Red Dust Road .
S. Atta (2012) A Bit of Difference .
C. Ngozi Adichie (2013) Americanah .
Optional reading on Coetzee
Attwell, David. South Africa and the Politics of Writing , Berkley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993.
Attridge, Derek. J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading , Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Hayes, Patrick. J. M. Coetzee and the Novel, New York: Oxford UP, 2010.
Optional reading on postcolonial literature
Boehmer, Elleke. Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Jameson, Fredric. “Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism”, Social Text, No. 15. (Autumn, 1986), pp. 65-88.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 8
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft
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