Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Storytelling in Africa
Term
2024C
Syllabus URL
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC2230401
Course number integer
2230
Meeting times
T 5:15 PM-8:14 PM
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
2230
Cross listings
ANTH2230401, CIMS2230401
Fulfills
Cross Cultural Analysis
Use local description
No