LAIS 411 - Modern African Literature

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Colorado School of Mines

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This course examines African writers' depictions of varied material and symbolic transformations wrought by twentieth-century colonialism and decolonization, and their differential impacts upon individual lives and collective histories around the continent. Fiction and poetry representing Anglophone, Francophone, Arabic, and indigenous language traditions will constitute the bulk of the reading. Alongside their intrinsic artistic values, these texts illuminate religious, ritual, and popular cultural practices massively important to social groups in countries ranging from Nigeria, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Ivory Coast to Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe. Primary soci-historical themes will include generational consciousness, ethnicity, gender relations, the dramatic grown of cities, and forms of collective violence stirred by actions and inactions of colonial and postcolonial governments. Prerequisite: LAIS100. Prerequisite or co-requisite: SYGN200. 3 hours seminar; 3 semester hours.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.mines.edu

Phone Number:

(303) 273-3000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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