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, the middle passage, Diaspora, pan-Africanism, identity, gender, and memory.

Prerequisite: LITS 1002 (E10B)

Instruction: 2 lectures and I 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)
Césaire, Aimé. Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Weslyan pb)
Condé, 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, 2nd edition, pb)
Johnson, Charles. Soulcatcher and Other Stories (Harcourt pb)

Recommended Texts:

Davies, Carole Boyce, et al., eds. The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities.
Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic : Modernity and Double Consciousness
Harris, Joseph E., ed. Global Dimensions of the African Diaspora.
Wilentz, Gay. Binding Cultures: Black Women's Unity in Africa and the Diaspora