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Type of Course	Seminar	Number
Hours per week in term	2	Term	WiSe 2019/20
Department	Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik	Language	englisch
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application period	01.10.2019 - 10.11.2019 enrollment

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		Day	Time	Frequency	Duration	Room	Lecturer	Canceled/rescheduled on	Max. participants
	Seminar	Mo	14:00 to 16:00	wöchentlich	14.10.2019 to 03.02.2020	1.09.1.15	Gasser	23.12.2019: Akademische Weihnachtsferien 30.12.2019: Akademische Weihnachtsferien	40

Description	Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading. This seminar will look at non-fictional writings from South(ern) Africa. We will discuss differences between fiction and non-fiction’s claims on ‘truthfulness’, and what these might mean in the (post-apartheid) Southern African context. We’ll read writings by Njabulo Ndebele, Antjie Krog and Panashe Chigumadzi, amongst others. Students should have access to Krog’s Begging to be Black, and Chigumadzi’s These Bones Shall Rise Again and begin reading as soon as possible. Other readings will be provided on Moodle.
Certificates	All students are expected to attend class regularly and well-prepared, to offer one presentation and one written protocol of a previous week’s class discussion. Testat: Response paper (1000 words).

Description

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

This seminar will look at non-fictional writings from South(ern) Africa. We will discuss differences between fiction and non-fiction’s claims on ‘truthfulness’, and what these might mean in the (post-apartheid) Southern African context. We’ll read writings by Njabulo Ndebele, Antjie Krog and Panashe Chigumadzi, amongst others. Students should have access to Krog’s Begging to be Black, and Chigumadzi’s These Bones Shall Rise Again and begin reading as soon as possible. Other readings will be provided on Moodle.

Certificates

All students are expected to attend class regularly and well-prepared, to offer one presentation and one written protocol of a previous week’s class discussion. Testat: Response paper (1000 words).

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