Lecturer in charge: Dr. Mawuena Logan [Room 34 – New Arts Block]

This course seeks to examine the literary representations of Africa with specific reference to selected texts by writers from the African Diaspora ( USA and the Caribbean ). Specific attention will be paid to issues/concepts such as: slavery, middle passage, diaspora, pan-Africanism, identity, gender, and memory.

Prerequisite: E10B

Instruction: 2 lectures and 1 tutorial per week

Evaluation: Tutorial presentations and 2 in-course tests 40%
Final 2-hour examination (2 answers) 60%

Prescribed Texts:
Angelou, Maya. All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (Random House pb)
Brathwaite, Kamau. The Arrivants ( Oxford Univ. Press)
Conde, Maryse. I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem (Ballantine Books pb)
Equiano, Olaudah. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (Bedford/St Martin's,
2 nd edition, pb)
Marshall, Paule. Praisesong for the Widow (Penguin USA pb)

Recommended Texts:
Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic : Modernity and Double Consciousness
Harris, Joseph E. ed. Global Dimensions of the African Diaspora .
Segal, Ronald. The Black Diaspora
Welsh-Asante, Kariamu. The African Aesthetic: Keeper of the Tradition .
Wilentz, Gay. Binding Cultures: Black Women's Unity in Africa and the Diaspora