ENGL 186 PZ -Post-Apartheid Novels

Institution: Pitzer

Description: This course will introduce students to South African literature, and will focus on novels written by Black South African writers after the transition to black majority rule. We will situate these texts in the context of South African literature more generally, and class discussions and papers will ask students to consider the texts’ engagement with South African history, culture, politics, and literary history. The literary texts will focus on 1995-present, but supplementary material and lectures will move from the 1970s Black Consciousness Movement to Njabulo Ndebele’s call in the 1990s for South African literature to “rediscover the ordinary.”

Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

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