ENG 235 WRITING AFRICA NOW

A survey of post-2000 literary and cultural production from sub-Saharan Africa. Topics include debates over fiction's relevance to African experience, legacies of canonical writing about independence, Africa as "tragic" landscape, and problems of scale and context. The course examines works by authors such as Adichie, Wainaina, Duiker, and Vladislavic, as well as film and hip-hop.

Credits

4

Prerequisite

Open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors; and to first-year students who have taken ENG 150 (formerly 202).

Enrollment Limit

Enrollment limited to 28 students.

Attributes

A4, MOIB, W