Culture anglofone ii
A.A. 2018/2019
Obiettivi formativi
Tramite lo studio di opere letterarie e saggistiche, film, documenti, discorsi e pratiche culturali caratteristici dei paesi anglofoni presi in esame e radicati nelle loro complesse esperienze ed evoluzioni storiche legate alla colonizzazione, alla decolonizzazione e alla storia presente, il corso si propone di ampliare la dimensione interculturale delle conoscenze e degli orizzonti degli studenti e di far acquisire loro avanzate capacità di comprensione, confronto, discussione, problematizzazione e analisi critica di argomenti di chiara rilevanza socio-culturale e centrali all'esperienza globalizzata della contemporaneità, delle alterità e delle disuguaglianze che tuttora la caratterizzano. Questi temi sono in linea con la vocazione interculturale e multiculturale del Corso di Laurea in Lingue e Culture per la Comunicazione e la Cooperazione Internazionale e sono affrontati attraverso la prospettiva concreta e interdisciplinare propria degli studi culturali, integrati dai metodi della teoria postcoloniale, di cui vengono forniti i principali strumenti teorici e pedagogici. Il corso è esplicitamente mirato a sollecitare negli studenti un ruolo attivo, in modo da sviluppare le capacità critiche, l'indipendenza di giudizio, la capacità di organizzare un proprio percorso didattico, di fare presentazioni e condurre dibattiti articolati in inglese, oltre alla capacità di fare collegamenti ragionati tra forme, generi, ideologie, pratiche e culture diverse e di trasferire le competenze acquisite nella prassi.
Gli obiettivi includono:
- Conoscenza e comprensione - Gli studenti acquisiranno conoscenza e comprensione critica di una varietà di pratiche culturali, di produzioni (arti visive, cinema, scrittura, musica, danza, teatro) e di testi letterari in lingua inglese attinenti alle tematiche del corso. Impareranno ad accostarsi ad essi attraverso approcci teorici e metodologici caratteristici degli Studi Culturali.
Altri importanti obiettivi didattici del corso sono la conoscenza e comprensione di specifici paradigmi della Teoria Postcoloniale applicati ai temi e alle aree presi in esame, del tormentato retaggio storico dei processi di colonizzazione e decolonizzazione e del loro perdurante impatto sul percorso di globalizzazione dei singoli paesi presi in esame.
- Capacità di applicare conoscenza e comprensione - Gli studenti saranno motivati e preparati ad applicare la loro conoscenza e comprensione alla lettura e analisi critica di produzioni culturali e testi letterari; al fine di incrementare la loro capacità di ricerca, selezione, sintesi e raffronto di informazioni rilevanti; di discutere in classe e in gruppo testi e argomenti di studio; produrre brevi lavori orali e scritti e powerpoint in lingua inglese sui temi trattati nel corso.
- Autonomia di giudizio - Gli studenti acquisiranno le seguenti abilità volte a favorire l'elaborazione di giudizi informati e autonomi: impareranno a adottare e trasferire diverse prospettive di analisi interculturale; a sviluppare un atteggiamento indagatore e critico verso una varietà di produzioni culturali e testi letterari; a stabilire comparazioni e collegamenti tra i diversi contesti di studio e il proprio contesto personale d'esperienza; a essere consapevoli dell'esistenza di diversi approcci e prospettive e saperli trasferire negli ambiti del percorso formativo intrapreso.
- Abilità comunicative - Il corso consentirà agli studenti di migliorare la loro capacità di discutere dati argomenti, presentare il loro lavoro di fronte a un pubblico di pari e avviare con esso un dibattito, condurre lavori di gruppo tra pari e usare strumenti e piattaforme informatiche rilevanti per lo studio delle diversità culturali nell'ambito dei paesi anglofoni.
- Capacità di apprendimento - Tramite la partecipazione attiva e il lavoro indipendente, gli studenti svilupperanno abilità che consentiranno loro di proseguire gli studi con maggiore curiosità intellettuale, autonomia e abilità di discernimento; di trasferire le abilità acquisite a campi d'indagine contigui; di applicare un metodo di lavoro alla ricerca futura.
Gli obiettivi includono:
- Conoscenza e comprensione - Gli studenti acquisiranno conoscenza e comprensione critica di una varietà di pratiche culturali, di produzioni (arti visive, cinema, scrittura, musica, danza, teatro) e di testi letterari in lingua inglese attinenti alle tematiche del corso. Impareranno ad accostarsi ad essi attraverso approcci teorici e metodologici caratteristici degli Studi Culturali.
Altri importanti obiettivi didattici del corso sono la conoscenza e comprensione di specifici paradigmi della Teoria Postcoloniale applicati ai temi e alle aree presi in esame, del tormentato retaggio storico dei processi di colonizzazione e decolonizzazione e del loro perdurante impatto sul percorso di globalizzazione dei singoli paesi presi in esame.
- Capacità di applicare conoscenza e comprensione - Gli studenti saranno motivati e preparati ad applicare la loro conoscenza e comprensione alla lettura e analisi critica di produzioni culturali e testi letterari; al fine di incrementare la loro capacità di ricerca, selezione, sintesi e raffronto di informazioni rilevanti; di discutere in classe e in gruppo testi e argomenti di studio; produrre brevi lavori orali e scritti e powerpoint in lingua inglese sui temi trattati nel corso.
- Autonomia di giudizio - Gli studenti acquisiranno le seguenti abilità volte a favorire l'elaborazione di giudizi informati e autonomi: impareranno a adottare e trasferire diverse prospettive di analisi interculturale; a sviluppare un atteggiamento indagatore e critico verso una varietà di produzioni culturali e testi letterari; a stabilire comparazioni e collegamenti tra i diversi contesti di studio e il proprio contesto personale d'esperienza; a essere consapevoli dell'esistenza di diversi approcci e prospettive e saperli trasferire negli ambiti del percorso formativo intrapreso.
- Abilità comunicative - Il corso consentirà agli studenti di migliorare la loro capacità di discutere dati argomenti, presentare il loro lavoro di fronte a un pubblico di pari e avviare con esso un dibattito, condurre lavori di gruppo tra pari e usare strumenti e piattaforme informatiche rilevanti per lo studio delle diversità culturali nell'ambito dei paesi anglofoni.
- Capacità di apprendimento - Tramite la partecipazione attiva e il lavoro indipendente, gli studenti svilupperanno abilità che consentiranno loro di proseguire gli studi con maggiore curiosità intellettuale, autonomia e abilità di discernimento; di trasferire le abilità acquisite a campi d'indagine contigui; di applicare un metodo di lavoro alla ricerca futura.
Risultati apprendimento attesi
Le competenze e le abilità acquisite sono coerenti con gli obiettivi del corso, da cui derivano. Gli studenti svilupperanno abilità e strategie di discussione, analisi critica e decostruzione ideologica di discorsi (giornalistici, culturali, politici), testi e generi (letterari e saggistici), opere di cultura visuale, documentari e film appartenenti alle diverse culture dei paesi anglofoni presi in esame, attraverso una costante sollecitazione alla partecipazione attiva, alla produzione autonoma e all'indipendenza di giudizio. A partire dalle metodologie degli Studi Culturali e della teoria postcoloniale, e dal contesto specifico del corso, analizzato nella sua dimensione locale e globale, gli studenti incrementeranno la capacità di confrontare e mettere in relazione ideologie, esperienze, pratiche e risposte informate di fronte ai temi della contemporaneità. Questi temi saranno affrontati privilegiando quella prospettiva interculturale che spicca tra gli obiettivi generali del Corso di Laurea in Lingue e Culture per la Comunicazione e la Cooperazione Internazionale.
Periodo: Primo semestre
Modalità di valutazione: Esame
Giudizio di valutazione: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Corso singolo
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Programma e organizzazione didattica
Edizione unica
Periodo
Primo semestre
STUDENTI FREQUENTANTI
STUDENTI NON FREQUENTANTI
Informazioni sul programma
"THE 'AFROPOLITAN IMAGINATION': THEORIES, EXPERIENCES, FICTIONS AND IMAGINARIES OF 'AFRICANS OF THE WORLD'"
The syllabus will include two modules of 20 hours each, and will be complemented by audio-visual educational material, films, and lectures by guest speakers. Further suggestions and material will be provided on the ARIEL website of the course (http://ldemichelisca1e2lin.ariel.ctu.unimi.it) when classes start. Lectures and the final exam will be in English.
The course aims to provide students with an inter- and cross-cultural awareness, as well as to enhance their critical knowledge and understanding of these themes in a global perspective which will help them to highlight the relations among culture(s), identities, beliefs, ideologies, literatures, genres, social and discursive practices.
The syllabus will include two modules of 20 hours each, and will be complemented by audio-visual educational material, films, and lectures by guest speakers. Further suggestions and material will be provided on the ARIEL website of the course (http://ldemichelisca1e2lin.ariel.ctu.unimi.it) when classes start. Lectures and the final exam will be in English.
The course aims to provide students with an inter- and cross-cultural awareness, as well as to enhance their critical knowledge and understanding of these themes in a global perspective which will help them to highlight the relations among culture(s), identities, beliefs, ideologies, literatures, genres, social and discursive practices.
Prerequisiti
Prerequisites, testing and evaluation:
Students are expected to have a good command of English, as lectures, films and texts are in that language. Lectures by guest speakers may be in Italian. Students from other Universities or Degree Courses who do not have a background in Cultural Studies may read: Roberto Pedretti, Itala Vivan, Dalla Lambretta allo skateboard. Teorie e storia delle culture giovanili britanniche (1950-2000), Milano, Unicopli 2009.
The final exam will consist of a critical and detailed oral discussion on all the texts, files and other material included in the programme. Students are to take the exam in English, and are required to demonstrate their full knowledge of the texts and the syllabus, and to be able to contextualise, analyse, evaluate and discuss them critically in the light of the analytical tools and cultural studies approach developed during the course.
Towards the end of the course there will be an optional written test (in Italian) for the students who attended the course on a regular basis. Foreign students will be able to take the test in English, if they wish. It will be centred on the essays, films and online files and presentations provided during the course and it will consist of a few open questions. Passing this test will allow the students to concentrate only on Adichie's Americanah and The Thing Around Your Neck for their final oral exam. Students are free not to take this test and discuss the whole programme in their final oral exam. Students attending the course may choose, on request and after contacting their professor, to prepare a presentation on topics pertaining to the issues explored in Module 1, but not included among the prescribed readings, instead of preparing the essays, slides and files included in the same module.
For students attending the course who will choose to take the written test, the final exam will be a combination of the marks obtained in the written test, the evaluation of their active participation in the course, and the result of the final oral discussion.
Students attending the course who will choose not to take the written tests will have to discuss in the final oral exam the whole programme (essays, online files, novels).
For students unable to attend the course, the final exam will be a critical oral discussion of the whole programme (including the additional and/or alternative material for students not attending the course listed in this programme).
Non-attending students are welcome to refer to their lecturers for questions and further comment about the contents and programme of the course during office hours or by email.
Excellence will be awarded to students who will show deep understanding of the methodological approach, will adopt originality of presentation, and will be able to critically connect events, texts, and cultural practices, analysed in both their local and global dimensions, according to a cross-cultural perspective.
Students are expected to have a good command of English, as lectures, films and texts are in that language. Lectures by guest speakers may be in Italian. Students from other Universities or Degree Courses who do not have a background in Cultural Studies may read: Roberto Pedretti, Itala Vivan, Dalla Lambretta allo skateboard. Teorie e storia delle culture giovanili britanniche (1950-2000), Milano, Unicopli 2009.
The final exam will consist of a critical and detailed oral discussion on all the texts, files and other material included in the programme. Students are to take the exam in English, and are required to demonstrate their full knowledge of the texts and the syllabus, and to be able to contextualise, analyse, evaluate and discuss them critically in the light of the analytical tools and cultural studies approach developed during the course.
Towards the end of the course there will be an optional written test (in Italian) for the students who attended the course on a regular basis. Foreign students will be able to take the test in English, if they wish. It will be centred on the essays, films and online files and presentations provided during the course and it will consist of a few open questions. Passing this test will allow the students to concentrate only on Adichie's Americanah and The Thing Around Your Neck for their final oral exam. Students are free not to take this test and discuss the whole programme in their final oral exam. Students attending the course may choose, on request and after contacting their professor, to prepare a presentation on topics pertaining to the issues explored in Module 1, but not included among the prescribed readings, instead of preparing the essays, slides and files included in the same module.
For students attending the course who will choose to take the written test, the final exam will be a combination of the marks obtained in the written test, the evaluation of their active participation in the course, and the result of the final oral discussion.
Students attending the course who will choose not to take the written tests will have to discuss in the final oral exam the whole programme (essays, online files, novels).
For students unable to attend the course, the final exam will be a critical oral discussion of the whole programme (including the additional and/or alternative material for students not attending the course listed in this programme).
Non-attending students are welcome to refer to their lecturers for questions and further comment about the contents and programme of the course during office hours or by email.
Excellence will be awarded to students who will show deep understanding of the methodological approach, will adopt originality of presentation, and will be able to critically connect events, texts, and cultural practices, analysed in both their local and global dimensions, according to a cross-cultural perspective.
Unita' didattica 1
Programma
"AFROPOLITANS", OR "AFRICANS OF THE WORLD": EXPERIENCES, THEORIES, SUBJECTIVITIES
Focusing on the rich theoretical and political framework, literary and non-literary works, films, essays, discourses, art forms, debates and cultural practices which explore the way African politicians, philosophers, artists and intellectuals have been conceptualizing their modes of identity formation and local, national and transnational belonging since the second half of the twentieth century, Module 1 aims to address the emerging discourse of "Afropolitanism". After discussing the way it connects with or resists contrasting imaginaries of "Pan-Africanism", transnationalism, and cosmopolitanism at large, the module will focus on the current debate on African ways of being and self-fashioning in the world against the complex political and cultural background of the global African diaspora.
Focusing on the rich theoretical and political framework, literary and non-literary works, films, essays, discourses, art forms, debates and cultural practices which explore the way African politicians, philosophers, artists and intellectuals have been conceptualizing their modes of identity formation and local, national and transnational belonging since the second half of the twentieth century, Module 1 aims to address the emerging discourse of "Afropolitanism". After discussing the way it connects with or resists contrasting imaginaries of "Pan-Africanism", transnationalism, and cosmopolitanism at large, the module will focus on the current debate on African ways of being and self-fashioning in the world against the complex political and cultural background of the global African diaspora.
Materiale di riferimento
· Chielozona Eze, "Rethinking African culture and identity: the Afropolitan model", Journal of African Cultural Studies, 26:2, 2014, pp. 234-247
· Amatoritsero Ede, "The politics of Afropolitanism", Journal of African Cultural Studies, 28:1, 2016, pp. 88-100
· Ryan Thomas Skinner, "Why Afropolitanism matters", Africa Today, 64, 2, Winter 2017, pp. 2-21; https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12362
· All the slides and files made available on the Ariel website of the course (http://ldemichelisca1e2lin.ariel.ctu.unimi.it)
plus
· 1 essay to be selected from the following list:
· Sarah Balakrishnan, "The Afropolitan Idea: New Perspectives on Cosmopolitanism in African Studies", History Compass, 15.2, 2017, pp. 60-71.
· Chielozona Eze, "We, Afropolitans", Journal of African Cultural Studies, 28: 1, 2016, pp. 114-119.
· Noah R. Bassil, "The roots of Afropessimism: the British invention of the 'dark continent', Critical Arts, 25:3, 2011, pp. 377-396
· Axelle Karera, "Writing Africa into the World and Writing the World from Africa: Mbembe's Politics of Dis-enclosure", Critical Philosophy of Race, 1:2, 2013, pp. 228-241.
*Most of the essays are available freely through the internet or the University Library online periodicals division. (Don't forget to log in!).
Students will be invited to participate actively in the analysis through workshop activities, presentations on essays and films, and debates.
· Amatoritsero Ede, "The politics of Afropolitanism", Journal of African Cultural Studies, 28:1, 2016, pp. 88-100
· Ryan Thomas Skinner, "Why Afropolitanism matters", Africa Today, 64, 2, Winter 2017, pp. 2-21; https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12362
· All the slides and files made available on the Ariel website of the course (http://ldemichelisca1e2lin.ariel.ctu.unimi.it)
plus
· 1 essay to be selected from the following list:
· Sarah Balakrishnan, "The Afropolitan Idea: New Perspectives on Cosmopolitanism in African Studies", History Compass, 15.2, 2017, pp. 60-71.
· Chielozona Eze, "We, Afropolitans", Journal of African Cultural Studies, 28: 1, 2016, pp. 114-119.
· Noah R. Bassil, "The roots of Afropessimism: the British invention of the 'dark continent', Critical Arts, 25:3, 2011, pp. 377-396
· Axelle Karera, "Writing Africa into the World and Writing the World from Africa: Mbembe's Politics of Dis-enclosure", Critical Philosophy of Race, 1:2, 2013, pp. 228-241.
*Most of the essays are available freely through the internet or the University Library online periodicals division. (Don't forget to log in!).
Students will be invited to participate actively in the analysis through workshop activities, presentations on essays and films, and debates.
Unita' didattica 2
Programma
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE'S AMERICANAH AND THE THING AROUND YOUR NECK: ISSUES OF RACE AND GENDER
Module 2 largely focuses on Adichie's richly nuanced, inspiring and sophisticated novel Americanah. Featuring the thoughts, aspirations, experiences, longings, successes and desires of young Nigerians belonging to the elites experiencing life in the USA and the UK before going back to settle in Lagos, it provides compelling insight onto the way issues such as race, discrimination, 'Africanness', 'authenticity', class and wordliness are seen in Nigeria, Europe and America, as well as a thought-provoking representation of Africa's inspiring, globalized contemporaneity. By highlighting the role of new media such as blogs, and the difference between being a black African or an Afro-American black, the novel also disrupts oversimplified and stereotypical understandings of racism. The second part of the module will consider Adichie's collection of short stories The Thing Around Your Neck, which opens a window onto the lives, desires and thoughts of contemporary Nigerian women and is a prelude to Adichie's increasingly characteristic take on feminist positions.
Module 2 largely focuses on Adichie's richly nuanced, inspiring and sophisticated novel Americanah. Featuring the thoughts, aspirations, experiences, longings, successes and desires of young Nigerians belonging to the elites experiencing life in the USA and the UK before going back to settle in Lagos, it provides compelling insight onto the way issues such as race, discrimination, 'Africanness', 'authenticity', class and wordliness are seen in Nigeria, Europe and America, as well as a thought-provoking representation of Africa's inspiring, globalized contemporaneity. By highlighting the role of new media such as blogs, and the difference between being a black African or an Afro-American black, the novel also disrupts oversimplified and stereotypical understandings of racism. The second part of the module will consider Adichie's collection of short stories The Thing Around Your Neck, which opens a window onto the lives, desires and thoughts of contemporary Nigerian women and is a prelude to Adichie's increasingly characteristic take on feminist positions.
Materiale di riferimento
· Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah, 2014 (any edition)
· Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck, 2009 (short stories, any edition). Students will have to prepare the following stories: "Cell One"; "A Private Experience"; "Jumping Monkey Hill"; "The American Embassy"; "The Thing Around Your Neck"; "The Headstrong Historian".
· All the slides and files made available on the Ariel website of the course (http://ldemichelisca1e2lin.ariel.ctu.unimi.it)
Plus
· 1 essay to be selected from the following list:
· Serena Guarracino, "Writing 'so raw and true': Blogging in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah", Between, IV:8, 2014, pp. 1-27.
· Katherine Hallemeier, "'To Be from the Country of People Who Gave': National Allegory and the United States of Adichie's Americanah", Studies in the Novel, 47:2, 2015, pp. 231-245.
· Camille Isaacs, "Mediating women's globalized existence through social media in the work of Adichie and Bulawayo", Safundi, 17:2, 2016, 174-188.
· Julie Iromuanya, "Are We All Feminists?: The Global Black Hair Industry and Marketplace in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah", Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, 16: 1, 2017, pp. 163-183.
· Brian Doherty, "Writing Back with a Difference Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 'The Headstrong Historian' as a Response to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart", Matatu, 45:1, 2014, pp. 187-201.
· Anene Ejikeme, "The Women of Things Fall Apart, Speaking from a Different Perspective: Chimamanda Adichie's Headstrong Storytellers", Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, 15, 2, 2017, pp. 307-329.
*Most of the essays are available freely through the internet or the University Library online periodicals division. (Don't forget to log in!).
Students will be invited to participate actively in the analysis through workshop activities, presentations on essays and films, and debates.
For a background in Nigerian history, students may refer to a general history of Nigeria (such as Richard Bourne, Nigeria: a new history of a turbulent century, Zed Books, 2015, o Falola Toyin, A History of Nigeria, 2008, or others).
· Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck, 2009 (short stories, any edition). Students will have to prepare the following stories: "Cell One"; "A Private Experience"; "Jumping Monkey Hill"; "The American Embassy"; "The Thing Around Your Neck"; "The Headstrong Historian".
· All the slides and files made available on the Ariel website of the course (http://ldemichelisca1e2lin.ariel.ctu.unimi.it)
Plus
· 1 essay to be selected from the following list:
· Serena Guarracino, "Writing 'so raw and true': Blogging in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah", Between, IV:8, 2014, pp. 1-27.
· Katherine Hallemeier, "'To Be from the Country of People Who Gave': National Allegory and the United States of Adichie's Americanah", Studies in the Novel, 47:2, 2015, pp. 231-245.
· Camille Isaacs, "Mediating women's globalized existence through social media in the work of Adichie and Bulawayo", Safundi, 17:2, 2016, 174-188.
· Julie Iromuanya, "Are We All Feminists?: The Global Black Hair Industry and Marketplace in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah", Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, 16: 1, 2017, pp. 163-183.
· Brian Doherty, "Writing Back with a Difference Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 'The Headstrong Historian' as a Response to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart", Matatu, 45:1, 2014, pp. 187-201.
· Anene Ejikeme, "The Women of Things Fall Apart, Speaking from a Different Perspective: Chimamanda Adichie's Headstrong Storytellers", Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, 15, 2, 2017, pp. 307-329.
*Most of the essays are available freely through the internet or the University Library online periodicals division. (Don't forget to log in!).
Students will be invited to participate actively in the analysis through workshop activities, presentations on essays and films, and debates.
For a background in Nigerian history, students may refer to a general history of Nigeria (such as Richard Bourne, Nigeria: a new history of a turbulent century, Zed Books, 2015, o Falola Toyin, A History of Nigeria, 2008, or others).
Prerequisiti
Prerequisites, testing and evaluation for STUDENTS UNABLE TO ATTEND:
The same as for attending students. Non-attending students, however, will have to take the whole exam orally.
Students who want to earn only 3 CREDITS have to prepare Module 1. If they are more interested in fiction, and would like to prepare Module 2, they are required to contact their professor by email or in person
The same as for attending students. Non-attending students, however, will have to take the whole exam orally.
Students who want to earn only 3 CREDITS have to prepare Module 1. If they are more interested in fiction, and would like to prepare Module 2, they are required to contact their professor by email or in person
Unita' didattica 1
Programma
The programme is the same as for attending students. Differences and options concerning the study material and readings are listed below.
Materiale di riferimento
Students unable to attend the course will have to prepare the following programme (Ariel files, lectures and films not included).
· Chielozona Eze, "Rethinking African culture and identity: the Afropolitan model", Journal of African Cultural Studies, 26:2, 2014, pp. 234-247
· Amatoritsero Ede, "The politics of Afropolitanism", Journal of African Cultural Studies, 28:1, 2016, pp. 88-100
· Ryan Thomas Skinner, "Why Afropolitanism matters", Africa Today, 64, 2, Winter 2017, pp. 2-21; https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12362
plus
· 2 essays to be selected from the following list:
· Sarah Balakrishnan, "The Afropolitan Idea: New Perspectives on Cosmopolitanism in African Studies", History Compass, 15.2, 2017, pp. 60-71.
· Chielozona Eze, "We, Afropolitans", Journal of African Cultural Studies, 28: 1, 2016, pp. 114-119.
· Noah R. Bassil, "The roots of Afropessimism: the British invention of the 'dark continent', Critical Arts, 25:3, 2011, pp. 377-396
· Axelle Karera, "Writing Africa into the World and Writing the World from Africa: Mbembe's Politics of Dis-enclosure", Critical Philosophy of Race, 1:2, 2013, pp. 228-241.
*Most of the essays are available freely through the internet or the University Library online periodicals division. (Don't forget to log in!).
· Chielozona Eze, "Rethinking African culture and identity: the Afropolitan model", Journal of African Cultural Studies, 26:2, 2014, pp. 234-247
· Amatoritsero Ede, "The politics of Afropolitanism", Journal of African Cultural Studies, 28:1, 2016, pp. 88-100
· Ryan Thomas Skinner, "Why Afropolitanism matters", Africa Today, 64, 2, Winter 2017, pp. 2-21; https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12362
plus
· 2 essays to be selected from the following list:
· Sarah Balakrishnan, "The Afropolitan Idea: New Perspectives on Cosmopolitanism in African Studies", History Compass, 15.2, 2017, pp. 60-71.
· Chielozona Eze, "We, Afropolitans", Journal of African Cultural Studies, 28: 1, 2016, pp. 114-119.
· Noah R. Bassil, "The roots of Afropessimism: the British invention of the 'dark continent', Critical Arts, 25:3, 2011, pp. 377-396
· Axelle Karera, "Writing Africa into the World and Writing the World from Africa: Mbembe's Politics of Dis-enclosure", Critical Philosophy of Race, 1:2, 2013, pp. 228-241.
*Most of the essays are available freely through the internet or the University Library online periodicals division. (Don't forget to log in!).
Unita' didattica 2
Programma
The programme is the same as for attending students. Differences and options concerning the study material and readings are listed below.
Materiale di riferimento
· Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah, 2014 (any edition)
· Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck, 2009 (short stories, any edition). Students will have to prepare the following stories: "Cell One"; "A Private Experience"; "Jumping Monkey Hill"; "The American Embassy"; "The Thing Around Your Neck"; "The Headstrong Historian".
Plus
· 2 essays to be selected from the following list:
· Serena Guarracino, "Writing 'so raw and true': Blogging in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah", Between, IV:8, 2014, pp. 1-27.
· Katherine Hallemeier, "'To Be from the Country of People Who Gave': National Allegory and the United States of Adichie's Americanah", Studies in the Novel, 47:2, 2015, pp. 231-245.
· Camille Isaacs, "Mediating women's globalized existence through social media in the work of Adichie and Bulawayo", Safundi, 17:2, 2016, 174-188.
· Julie Iromuanya, "Are We All Feminists?: The Global Black Hair Industry and Marketplace in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah", Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, 16: 1, 2017, pp. 163-183.
· Brian Doherty, "Writing Back with a Difference Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 'The Headstrong Historian' as a Response to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart", Matatu, 45:1, 2014, pp. 187-201.
· Anene Ejikeme, "The Women of Things Fall Apart, Speaking from a Different Perspective: Chimamanda Adichie's Headstrong Storytellers", Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, 15, 2, 2017, pp. 307-329.
As an alternative, the STUDENTS UNABLE TO ATTEND may prepare all the short stories of The Thing Around Your Neck instead of the two essays of module 2.
*Most of the essays are available freely through the internet or the University Library online periodicals division. (Don't forget to log in!).
For a background in Nigerian history, students may refer to a general history of Nigeria (such as Richard Bourne, Nigeria: a new history of a turbulent century, Zed Books, 2015, o Falola Toyin, A History of Nigeria, 2008, or others).
· Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck, 2009 (short stories, any edition). Students will have to prepare the following stories: "Cell One"; "A Private Experience"; "Jumping Monkey Hill"; "The American Embassy"; "The Thing Around Your Neck"; "The Headstrong Historian".
Plus
· 2 essays to be selected from the following list:
· Serena Guarracino, "Writing 'so raw and true': Blogging in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah", Between, IV:8, 2014, pp. 1-27.
· Katherine Hallemeier, "'To Be from the Country of People Who Gave': National Allegory and the United States of Adichie's Americanah", Studies in the Novel, 47:2, 2015, pp. 231-245.
· Camille Isaacs, "Mediating women's globalized existence through social media in the work of Adichie and Bulawayo", Safundi, 17:2, 2016, 174-188.
· Julie Iromuanya, "Are We All Feminists?: The Global Black Hair Industry and Marketplace in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah", Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, 16: 1, 2017, pp. 163-183.
· Brian Doherty, "Writing Back with a Difference Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 'The Headstrong Historian' as a Response to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart", Matatu, 45:1, 2014, pp. 187-201.
· Anene Ejikeme, "The Women of Things Fall Apart, Speaking from a Different Perspective: Chimamanda Adichie's Headstrong Storytellers", Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, 15, 2, 2017, pp. 307-329.
As an alternative, the STUDENTS UNABLE TO ATTEND may prepare all the short stories of The Thing Around Your Neck instead of the two essays of module 2.
*Most of the essays are available freely through the internet or the University Library online periodicals division. (Don't forget to log in!).
For a background in Nigerian history, students may refer to a general history of Nigeria (such as Richard Bourne, Nigeria: a new history of a turbulent century, Zed Books, 2015, o Falola Toyin, A History of Nigeria, 2008, or others).
Moduli o unità didattiche
Unita' didattica 1
L-LIN/10 - LETTERATURA INGLESE - CFU: 3
Lezioni: 20 ore
Unita' didattica 2
L-LIN/10 - LETTERATURA INGLESE - CFU: 3
Lezioni: 20 ore