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Year module |
NQF level: 8 |
Credits: 24 |
| Module presented in English |
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| Purpose: This module aims to enable successful students to demonstrate knowledge of literature produced by African writers and those from the African diaspora. It aims to foster sophisticated engagement with literary texts in English specifically in relation to meanings, knowledges and values pertinent to Africans on the continent and elsewhere. The history of western modernity has included the coloniality of knowledge, which in turn has suppressed the knowledges and art produced in communities deemed "inferior" (i.e. produced by the colonised). This module aims to redress this imbalance by re-centring literary production from Africa, while problematising the idea of a unitary African identity. It aspires to guide students towards an appreciation of African literature as responding to the challenges of globalisation, migration, liminal and hybrid identities, economic volatility and the mediatisation of the current era. |