| Course Title: Topics in Africana Studies: 'Postcolonial Literatures of Anglophone Africa and South Asia' |
| Start Date: 01/24/2022 End Date: 05/09/2022 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2022 |
| Description: This course brings together literatures from Anglophone South Asia and Africa to explore how belonging to the nation is complicated by realities of marginalization and displacement. Postcolonial histories demonstrate tensions between the ideological aspirations of the nation as home and the reality of internal conflicts and wars that expose the limits of belonging. Texts include novels, literary criticism, and critical theory on internal displacement and refugees, the gendered and ethnic minorities, the political other, and trauma. We will read Chinelo Okparanta's Under the Udala Tree, Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India, Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost, and Tsitsi Dangarembga's The Book of Not. |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities , MP - Multicultural Perspectives , SI - Speaking-Intensive , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Arpita Mandal | amandal@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 01/24/2022 - 05/09/2022 | Seminar | Tuesday | 01:30PM - 04:20PM | DWGT - Dwight Hall | 202 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: 8 credits in English. | Take previously | Required |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| AFCNA0001 | AFCNA: Africana Studies major | This course has been approved to count towards the Africana Studies major and/or minor. |
| AFCNA0001 | AFCNA: Africana Studies minor | This course has been approved to count towards the Africana Studies major and/or minor. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| ENGL-382RB-01 RupturedBelonging:Postcol.Lit |
| AFCNA-341RB-01 RupturedBelonging:Postcol.Lit |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 18 | Enrollment: 7 | Available: 11 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: Maps: A Novel -- book 1 of The Blood in the Sun Trilogy Author: Farah, Nuruddin Copyright: Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9781628725858 Publisher: Arcade; Reprint edition |
Required | 15.87 |
| Title: Under the Udala Trees Author: Okparanta, Chinelo Copyright: Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780544811799 Publisher: Mariner Books; Reprint edition |
Required | 13.00 |
| Title: Cracking India: A Novel Author: Sidhwa, Bapsi Copyright: Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9781571310484 Publisher: Milkweed Editions; Reprint edition |
Required | 10.00 |
| Title: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Author: Beah, Ishmael Copyright: 2008 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780374531263 Publisher: Sarah Chrichton Books |
Required | 13.00 |
| Title: This Mournable Body (Nervous Conditions Series) Author: Dangarembga, Tsitsi Copyright: Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9781555978129 Publisher: Graywolf |
Required | 12.00 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is NOT the complete book list for this class. |