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Advanced Seminar
SoSe 21: S-Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures: Afropolitanism
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 unpack the term afropolitanism and explore whether Cole's claim also holds true for texts of other afropolitan writers. We will take a look at how this new aesthetics is shaping novels by afropolitan writers today and how it might influence other cultural productions like films.
Texts:
Taiye Selasi, Ghana Must Go Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing Yvonne Adhiambo Owour, The Dragonfly Sea close13 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Thu, 2021-04-15 12:15 - 13:45
Thu, 2021-04-22 12:15 - 13:45
Thu, 2021-04-29 12:15 - 13:45
Thu, 2021-05-06 12:15 - 13:45
Thu, 2021-05-20 12:15 - 13:45
Thu, 2021-05-27 12:15 - 13:45
Thu, 2021-06-03 12:15 - 13:45
Thu, 2021-06-10 12:15 - 13:45
Thu, 2021-06-17 12:15 - 13:45
Thu, 2021-06-24 12:15 - 13:45
Thu, 2021-07-01 12:15 - 13:45
Thu, 2021-07-08 12:15 - 13:45
Thu, 2021-07-15 12:15 - 13:45