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ENG 361 African Fiction

300 levelArts & Humanities10 topics

ENG 361 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Origins and development of the African novel
  2. The colonial and anti-colonial novel
  3. Major West African novelists and their works
  4. East, Southern and North African fiction
  5. Themes of tradition and modernity
  6. Nationalism and post-independence disillusionment
  7. Narrative techniques in African fiction
  8. Language and style in the African novel
  9. Feminist perspectives in African fiction
  10. Oral tradition and the written narrative

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One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Origins and development of the African novel

The origins and development of the African novel focus on how prose fiction in Africa emerged from oral traditions, contact with literacy and print culture, colonial experience, and later nationalist and postcolonial writing. For examination purposes, you must understand the major stages of growth, the forces that shaped form and themes, and how African novelists adapted the novel genre to express African realities.

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