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Advanced Seminar
SoSe 23: S-Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures: Afropolitan Historiography
Cordula Lemke
Comments
Teju Cole once said about Taiye Selasi's novel Ghana Must Go: "Selasi does more than merely renew our sense of the African novel: she renews our sense of the novel, period." He claims that with an afropolitan writer like Selasi a new aesthetics of global significance has entered the stage. In this seminar, we will explore this new aesthetics in the historical novel and its colonial baggage. We will look at how afropolitan texts rewrite the historical novel in order to decolonise historiography and create something new.
Texts:
Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing
Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King
Yvonne Adhiambo Owour, The Dragonfly Sea
close14 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Fri, 2023-04-21 12:00 - 14:00
Fri, 2023-04-28 12:00 - 14:00
Fri, 2023-05-05 12:00 - 14:00
Fri, 2023-05-12 12:00 - 14:00
Fri, 2023-05-19 12:00 - 14:00
Fri, 2023-05-26 12:00 - 14:00
Fri, 2023-06-02 12:00 - 14:00
Fri, 2023-06-09 12:00 - 14:00
Fri, 2023-06-16 12:00 - 14:00
Fri, 2023-06-23 12:00 - 14:00
Fri, 2023-06-30 12:00 - 14:00
Fri, 2023-07-07 12:00 - 14:00
Fri, 2023-07-14 12:00 - 14:00
Fri, 2023-07-21 12:00 - 14:00