Status
O
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Storytelling in Africa
Term
2021C
Syllabus URL
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC223401
Course number integer
223
Meeting times
T 05:15 PM-08:15 PM
Meeting location
WILL 741
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Pamela Blakely
Description
African storytellers entertain, educate, and comment obliquely on sensitive and controversial issues in artful performance. The course considers motifs, structures, and interpretations of trickster tales and other folktales, storytellers' performance skills, and challenges to presenting oral narrative in written and film texts. The course also explores ways traditional storytelling has inspired African social reformers and artists, particularly filmmakers. Students will have opportunities to view films in class.
Course number only
223
Cross listings
ANTH223401, CIMS222401
Fulfills
Cross Cultural Analysis
Use local description
No