140201 VO Race, Gender and Sexuality in African Literature (2011S)

- identify, analyse and understand key theoretical and historical issues in the field of postcolonialism
- understand the operations of race and gender categories in African literature, history and philosophy
- analyse key African literary works in terms of their social and historical context
- apply close reading skills to a variety of literary texts
- reflect critically on the relations between primary texts and relevant secondary texts
- discriminate between ideas and define personal positions and justify them intellectually
- produce well-structured, relevant arguments with an appropriate intellectual framework