Afropolitanism - Einzelansicht

Funktionen:

Veranstaltungsart	Seminar	Veranstaltungsnummer
SWS	2	Semester	SoSe 2018
Einrichtung	Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik	Sprache	englisch
Weitere Links	comment
Belegungsfrist	03.04.2018 - 20.05.2018 Belegung über PULS

Gruppe 1:

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		Tag	Zeit	Rhythmus	Dauer	Raum	Lehrperson	Ausfall-/Ausweichtermine	Max. Teilnehmer/-innen
	Seminar	Mi	12:00 bis 14:00	wöchentlich	11.04.2018 bis 18.07.2018	1.19.0.31			30

Kommentar	Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading. In her influential portrayal of the Afropolitan in LIP magazine, Taiye Selasi described a new generation of twenty-first-century African emigrants who were no longer oppressed by the trauma of an African past filled with stories of brutality and suffering under transatlantic slavery and various systems of colonial oppression and subjugation. Selasi’s Afropolitans were, rather, turned towards a future filled with hope and possibility, embracing the various forms of cultural hybridity that were generated from the transnational movements of an increasingly globalised world. Yet the idea of the Afropolitan has also been criticised by postcolonial theorists such as Paul Gilroy, Simon Gikandi and Achille Mbembe, who caution against the celebration of an Afropolitan existence at the expense of the negative consequences of transnationalism and the displacement of Africans abroad. This course examines a range of fiction from the African diaspora in order to examine the ways in which the transnational African writer celebrates, problematises and/or critiques the relationship between Africa and the Global North in the twenty first century. Over the course of the semester, students will investigate the ways in which various theorists and writers of the African-transnational experience have attempted to negotiate the contradictory demands associated with the promises of Western liberalism, market capitalism, and individual success on the one hand, and those of relationship, belonging, community, tradition and attentiveness of the problems of everyday life in Africa on the other.
Literatur	SET TEXTS. Students are expected to acquire the following texts: Abani, Chris. _Becoming Abigail_. Akashic Books, 2006. Abani, Chris. _The Virgin of the Flames_, Penguin, 2007. Adichie, Chimananda Ngozi. _Americanah_. Anchor Books, 2014. Bulawayo, NoViolet. _We Need New Names_. Vintage Books, 2014. Cole, Teju. _Open City_. Faber and Faber, 2011. Mengetsu, Dinaw. _The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears_. Riverhead Books, 2007. Supplementary readings will be made available on Moodle prior to the beginning of semester.

Kommentar

Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading.

In her influential portrayal of the Afropolitan in LIP magazine, Taiye Selasi described a new generation of twenty-first-century African emigrants who were no longer oppressed by the trauma of an African past filled with stories of brutality and suffering under transatlantic slavery and various systems of colonial oppression and subjugation. Selasi’s Afropolitans were, rather, turned towards a future filled with hope and possibility, embracing the various forms of cultural hybridity that were generated from the transnational movements of an increasingly globalised world. Yet the idea of the Afropolitan has also been criticised by postcolonial theorists such as Paul Gilroy, Simon Gikandi and Achille Mbembe, who caution against the celebration of an Afropolitan existence at the expense of the negative consequences of transnationalism and the displacement of Africans abroad. This course examines a range of fiction from the African diaspora in order to examine the ways in which the transnational African writer celebrates, problematises and/or critiques the relationship between Africa and the Global North in the twenty first century. Over the course of the semester, students will investigate the ways in which various theorists and writers of the African-transnational experience have attempted to negotiate the contradictory demands associated with the promises of Western liberalism, market capitalism, and individual success on the one hand, and those of relationship, belonging, community, tradition and attentiveness of the problems of everyday life in Africa on the other.

Literatur

SET TEXTS.
Students are expected to acquire the following texts:

Abani, Chris. _Becoming Abigail_. Akashic Books, 2006.
Abani, Chris. _The Virgin of the Flames_, Penguin, 2007.
Adichie, Chimananda Ngozi. _Americanah_. Anchor Books, 2014.
Bulawayo, NoViolet. _We Need New Names_. Vintage Books, 2014.
Cole, Teju. _Open City_. Faber and Faber, 2011.
Mengetsu, Dinaw. _The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears_. Riverhead Books, 2007.

Supplementary readings will be made available on Moodle prior to the beginning of semester.

Strukturbaum

Keine Einordnung ins Vorlesungsverzeichnis vorhanden. Veranstaltung ist aus dem Semester SoSe 2018 , Aktuelles Semester: WiSe 2024/25