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Institut für Anglistik Institut für Anglistik

Dr. Geoffrey Vernon Davis Dr. Geoffrey Vernon Davis
ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Helga Ramsey-Kurz, MA ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Helga Ramsey-Kurz, MA, +43 512 507 41409

609556

British and/or Postcolonial Literary Studies + Reading List: South African Literature During and After Apartheid

VO 2

7,5

Block

semestral

Englisch

This series of lectures will consider aspects of South African literature in the context of the social and political development of the country. It will provide an overview of the history of the country, which is essential to any understanding of the literature. This will include such topics as early African settlement, the coming of the whites and the subsequent conquest of the country, the development of racist ideology and the legislation of apartheid, the resistance movement inside and outside the country, the transition to a non-racial, democratic society, the deliberations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and an assessment of the transformations of the first two post-apartheid decades. Against this background the lectures will then explore the history of writing during apartheid looking in particular at oppositional fiction and drama, and paying some attention to the Black Consciousness writing of the 1970s. The impact of censorship on South African literature during the apartheid phase will be a particular focus. We shall then move on to look at the literature of the transitional period from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s and shall conclude with some consideration of the literary developments which have taken place in the South Africa of the new millennium. One of the lectures will be devoted to the new wave of crime fiction. Students who wish to do some reading in advance might like to try Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country, André Brink’s A Dry White Season, Gillian Slovo’s Red Dust, Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying, Athol Fugard’s plays Sizwe Bansi is Dead and Playland, the play Ubu and the Truth Commission by Jane Taylor and William Kentridge, and any of the crime novels of Deon Meyer. The lectures will be supplemented by films both political and literary

Anmeldevoraussetzung/en: positive Beurteilung der Pflichtmodule 3 und 16 Entspricht im Lehramtsstudium (344): VO2: English Literature and Culture (mit Leseliste) Entspricht im Diplomstudium (343): VO2: English Literature/Culture (mit Leseliste)
Beginn: 15. März 2012