Status
O
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Colonial/Postcolonial Fiction and Film
Term
2020C
Syllabus URL
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC572401
Course number integer
572
Registration notes
Crse Online: Sync & Async Components
Meeting times
R 03:00 PM-06:00 PM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Rita Barnard
Description
This course is based on a selection of representative texts written in English, as well as a few texts in English translation. It involves, a study of themes relating to social change and the persistence of cultural traditions, followed by an attempt at sketching the emergence of literary tradition by identifying some of the formal conventions of established writers in their use of old forms and experiments with new. See the Department's website at www.africana.upenn.edu for a complete description of the current offerings.
Course number only
572
Cross listings
COML575401, ENGL572401, CIMS572401
Use local description
No