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Anthropology and LiteratureDescribing Africa from Inside and Outside (english-speaking Africa)
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Writers and anthropologists often share the experience of living in the same societies but often have distinct views at it. This seminar wants to juxtapose their views at African societies and their history. It thus addresses students of English literature and anthropology alike. We propose a selection of contemporary African literature in English accompanied by anthropological works that look at the same society and that were, with a few exceptions, written in the same period. The exceptions address the same period in history as, for instance, colonialism or the de-colonisation period in the mid 20th century. We invite students from the two disciplines to work together as small teams, to read across disciplinary borders and to present their reading of these works together to the class. It is not a disadvantage to come to diverging conclusions about the aesthetic or descriptive value of a book! On the contrary, we want to urge you to highlight such differences in your appreciation of the works. If possible, address, at the end of your presentation, the question of what causes these differences.
Presentations should be about 45 min. long, leaving another 45 min. for discussions. Full papers are due one week in advance of your presentation. We would appreciate if you could send them to us as word- or pdf-files so that we can put them on the website of the seminar. We will protect them by a password that we will com-municate to all participants in the class.
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03.03.2010 |
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Introduction |
Till Förster
Therese Steffen |
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10.03.2010 |
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Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart. 1958
Forde, Cyril Daryll; Jones, G. I.: The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South-Eastern Nigeria. 1950 |
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17.03.2010 |
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Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart. 1958
Suberu, Rotimi T.: Federalism and ethnic conflict in Nigeria. 2001 |
Claire Hoffmann |
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24.03.2010 |
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Buchi Emecheta: The Joys of Motherhood. 1979
Jeremey Seymour Eades: The Yoruba Today. 1980 |
Martina Niggli |
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31.03.2010 |
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Kwame Anthony Appiah: In My Father’s House. 1992
Robert Sutherland Rattray: Ashanti. 1923 |
Etienne Aubert |
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07.04.2010 |
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Kwame Anthony Appiah: In My Father’s House. 1992
Allman, Jean Marie, “I will not eat stone”: a women’s history of colonial Asante. 2000 |
Etienne Aubert
Chantal Zimmernann |
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14.04.2010 |
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Wole Soyinka, The Beatification of Area Boy. (play) 1994
D.J. Smith: A Culture of Corruption. 2008. |
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21.04.2010 |
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Wole Soyinka: The Interpreters. 1965
Karen Barber: I could speak until tomorrow. 1991 |
Andrea Schäfer |
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28.04.2010 |
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Ken Saro-Wiwa, Soza Boy: A novel in Rotten English. 1985
Elias Kekong Bisong: Restorative Justice for Niger Delta. 2009 |
Dominique Kläy
Laura Simon |
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05.05.2010 |
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Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Decolonizing the Mind. 1986
Jomo Kenyatta, Facing Mount Kenya. 1938 |
Laura Huber
Dorothee Ryser |
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12.05.2010 |
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Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Weep not Child. 1964
Godfrey Mwakikagile: Ethnic Politics in Kenya and Nigeria, 2001
(or: John Lonsdale/Bruce Berman: Unhappy Valley. 1992) |
Nuria Bischof |
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19.05.2010 |
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Tsitsi Dangarembga: Nervous Conditions. 1988
Richard B. Werbner: Tears of the Dead. 1992 |
Malimela Mxolisi
Daniela Gloor |
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26.05.2010 |
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Sindiwe Magona, To My Children’s Children. 1990
Jean Comaroff, Spirit of Resistance. 1985 |
Sarah Degen |
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02.06.2010 |
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Modul Extending the View (Literary and Cultural Studies) (BSF - Englisch)
Modul Focusing on the Discipline (Literary and Cultural Studies) (BSF - Englisch)
Modul Wissenschaftliche Vertiefung (BSF - Ethnologie)
Modul English & American Literature (MSF - Englisch)
Modul Fachgeschichte der Ethnologie (MSF - Ethnologie)
Modul Theorie der Ethnologie (MSF - Ethnologie)
Modul Social Anthropology (MSG - African Studies)
Modul Compléments de connaissance en histoire, culture et societé (MSG - Etudes françaises et francophones)
Teilnahmevoraussetzungen für Bachelor-Studierende der Ethnologie: Alle Veranstaltungen der Module "Einführung in die Ethnologie" und "Grundlagen der Ethnologie" (mit Ausnahme des Tutorats/studentische Eigenleistung) sowie ein Regionalkurs müssen mit Erfolg bestanden und die drei Proseminararbeiten mit PASS bewertet worden sein. |
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