AAAS 275S · also ENGLISH 255S, LIT 255S
Adichie and Her Contemporaries
Christopher E. Ouma
Description from DukeHub
Africa is not a country. There is not a 'single story' about Africa. A novel is a world. This course seeks to pursue the ways in which a contemporary generation of African writers produce a varied and complex imagination of Africa to the world. The course selects a diverse cohort of African novelists and short story writers to give students a complex and multi-dimensional 'handle' on Africa. Foregrounding Adichie, we will read her alongside her contemporaries from East, Central and Southern Africa, including Binyavanga Wainaina, Imbolo Mbue, Yewande Omotoso and others.
Skills
No skill passed the confidence bar. Weak matches go to review instead of this page: an AI pass that has to quote the description, then a person.
AI-resilient: 2 of 5
- No: Physical, lab or field work
- No: Live work with people
- Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "ethical"
- No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
- Yes: Small, in-person format · seminar, 12 seats per section
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