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143070 UE An Introduction to Literary Works of the Maghreb (2024W)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 14 - Orientalistik, Afrikanistik, Indologie und Tibetologie
Continuous assessment of course work

Studierende, die Interesse haben, diese LV für das EC Koloniales und postkoloniales Afrika oder das EC Afrikanische Sprachen und Literaturen zu absolvieren, melden sich bitte vorher unter service.spl14@univie.ac.at
Moodle
Th 23.01. 09:00-11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-03

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Details

max. 40 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Hello and welcome to (y)our course.

(Y)our course will alternate between onsite and online sessions.

The kick-off session will be ONSITE on October 10 in Seminar Room 1 at the African Studies Department.

Salaam.

Rémi Tchokothe

  • Thursday 10.10. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-03
  • Thursday 17.10. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-03
  • Thursday 24.10. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-03
  • Thursday 31.10. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-03
  • Thursday 07.11. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-03
  • Thursday 14.11. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-03
  • Thursday 21.11. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-03
  • Thursday 28.11. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-03
  • Thursday 05.12. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-03
  • Thursday 12.12. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-03
  • Thursday 09.01. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-03
  • Thursday 16.01. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-03
  • Thursday 30.01. 09:00 - 11:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 1 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-03

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Summary:

In this overview and the accompanying tutorial sessions, students will be introduced to various topics and voices from the Maghreb. Representative works and translations in English, German and French by Tahar Ben Jelloun, Morocco (This Blinding Absence of Light, 2006); Assia Djebbar, Algeria (Durst, 2002); Habib Selmi, Tunisia (La Voisine du cinquième, 2022); Shatwan Najwa Bin, Libya (Catalogue of a Private Life: Short Stories, 2022); Aichetou Ahmedou, Mauritania (La couleur du vent: Il était une fois à Nouakchott, 2017) and Mbarek Ould Beyrouk (The Desert and the Drum, translation by Rachael McGill, 2019) will be discussed. Other themes such as the violence of/in history, the contemporary exploitation of natural resources, the violence of conservative systems, stages, and faces of social transformations, women’s agency, questions of desire, tensions, cruelty, and tenderness, etc, will be covered to throw light on the literatures from the Maghreb from different perspectives.

Goals

1. To introduce students to the breadth and wealth of ‘Maghreb’ literatures
2. To do a comparative ‘slow reading’ of works by selected writers
3. To foster a reflection on the limits of concepts such as ‘world literature’

Content

Reading and in-depth analysis of selected literary works, general and theoretical articles, book chapters, and video material.

Methods

1. Active reading of texts, research, and active participation in class
2. Group work throughout the semester

Assessment and permitted materials

Expectations and breakdown of the final grade

1. Regular and active participation in class
2. Group research
3. Critical reading, thinking, and handling
4. The readiness to go the extra mile
5. Oral Examination in the last week of January 2025 (100/%)

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria


1. Regular and active participation in class
2. Individual or group research
3. Critical reading, thinking, and handling
4. The readiness to go the extra mile
5. Oral Examination in the last week of January 2025 (100/%)

Examination topics

Oral examination on selected topics.

Reading list

General Reading

Aichetou, Edward Gauvin (translator). 2021. „The forsaken”
The Forsaken by Aichetou - Words Without Borders, last accessed on November 3, 2023.
Balack, July. 2021. “Movement and Stasis. Contemporary Mauritanian Literature.”
Movement and Stasis by July Blalack - Words Without Borders, last accessed on November 3, 2023.
Mani, 2013. “Borrowing Privileges: Libraries and the Institutionalization of World Literature”. Modern Language Quarterly 74 (2): 239-260.
https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-2073007
Mariem Mint Derwich, Emma Ramadan (translator). „You will tell them”.
You Will Tell Them by Mariem Mint Derwich - Words Without Borders, last accessed on November 3, 2023.
Memmi, Albert, Bonnono, Robert (translator). 2006. Decolonization and the Decolonized. University of Minnesota Press.

Literary Works

Aichetou, Ahmedou. 2017. La couleur du vent: Il était une fois à Nouakchott. Kindle Edition.
Ben Jelloun., Tahar, Coverdale, Linda (translator.) 2006. This Blinding Absence of Light. Penguin Books.
Mbarek, Ould Beyrouk, McGill , Rachael (Translator). 2019. The Desert and the Drum. Dedalus Limited.
Djebar, Assia. Kimmig, Rudolf (Übersetzer) & Zimra, Clarisse (Nachwort). 2002. Durst.: Unionsverlag Taschenbücher.
Selmi, Habib, Dujols, Stéphanie (traductrice). 2022. La Voisine du cinquième. Acte Sud.
Shatwan, Najwa Bin, Sawad, Hussain (translator). 2022. Catalogue of a Private Life: Short Stories. Dedalus Africa, Band 6.

Association in the course directory

AWL

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