2009 MM African Intertextualities: Writing and Rewriting in Anglophone Fiction from Africa

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07.04.09

Introduction. Technicalities.

14.04.09

Analysing Fiction: Recapitulation and practical application.

21.04.09

• Ngugi wa Thiong'o: "On the Abolition of the English Department". Ashcroft, Bill et al. (eds.): The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. London: Routledge, 1995.

28.04.09

“National Allegories” – The debate about Fredric Jameson’s “Third World Literature in the Age of Multinational Capitalism”

• Jameson, Fredric. "Third World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism". Social Text 15 (1986): 65-88.

• Ahmad, Aijaz. "Jameson's Rhetoric of Otherness and the 'National Allegory'". Social Text 17 (1987): 3-25.*

05.05.09

Intertextuality: Concepts and Definitions

12.05.09

Es'kia Mphahlele, “Mrs. Plum”

• Mphahlele, Es'kia: "Mrs. Plum". Renewal Time. London: Readers International, 1988.

19.05.09

A Grain of Wheat, the Mau Mau Wars and the Kenyan Independence: The Historical Background and the Structure of the Book.