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AFRS 344: Literature of the African and Caribbean Experience Opens at 11:00AM and closes at 12:15:PM on Monday, you must log in at 11:00AM and complete within 75 minuteshis is an open book and open notes cumulative online assignment. Material from all course readings, in-class discussions, mini-lectures, films, and all other course materials may be included on the assignment. Review your reading notes, in-class notes and written response answers carefully. Students must complete the assignment individually and may not collaborate, consult with, or otherwise discuss the questions or answers with others while taking the assignment. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure access to a stable Wi-Fi connection and a computer during the scheduled assignment time. Students will have 75-minutes to complete the assignment during the scheduled assignment time.Texts, Key Concepts and Terms for assignmentAfrica and its DiasporaThe Life of Walatta-Petros (publication date, genre, themes, historical, literary significance, translation)Invention of the African Other (stereotypes of Africa)Bumuntu (a.k.a. Ubuntu, African conception of “authentic personhood”; hospitality and solidarity: “I am because we are, and because we are therefore I am;” Nkulu-N’Sengha)Centering of African experienceLanguage (politics of, hierarchies of, use in literature, African languages, European languages, mother tongue)Orality vs. LiteracyOrature (oral literature) vs. LiteratureCultural identityRepresentationResistance to European colonization/religious conversionTradition v. changeHistory (individual, local, cultural)Memory (individual, cultural, collective)Contact Zones (Mary Louise Pratt)Traumatic encounter between Europe and AfricaNarrative structureChinua Achebe as (Grand)Father of African LiteratureChinua Achebe, “English and the African Writer” (publication date, genre, central arguments)NgÅ©gÄ© wa Thiong’o, “On the Abolition of the English Department” (publication date, genre, central arguments)Oral TraditionSimon Gikandi, “African literature and the colonial factor” (publication date, genre, central arguments)Colonialism and its impact on modern African literatureNamwali Serpell, “The Sack” (publication date, genre, plot, narration, central metaphors, locations, main characters, themes, motifs)ZambiaAmbiguity and mysteryExperimental narrative structureMetaphor and meaning of the sackSymbols (ants, fish, dreams, the eye, etc.)Passage of timeMigrationSymbol of national bordersChinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (publication date, genre, plot, narration, central metaphors, locations, main characters, themes, motifs, significance of title)W. B. Yeats, “The Second Coming”Igbo culture in NigeriaAncestral valuesSignifiance of the killing of IkemefunaQuestion of moral culpability (Damian Opata)Patriarchy“Male” vs. “female” crime and significanceGender relationships (Biodun Jeyifo)Representations of motherhood and motherlandMetaphor of the yamFamily dynamics (relationships: father-daughter/ father-son/ mother-daughters/ mother-son/ sisters-brothers/ surrogate fathers and surrogate mothers, husband-wife)Pre-colonial, Colonial, and Post-colonial PeriodsWar and its effects on societiesEducation and ReligionEdwidge Danticat, Krik? Krak! (publication date, genre, plot, narration, central metaphors, locations, main characters, themes, motifs, significance of title, epigraph)History of Haiti, Haitian Revolution, 1937, US occupationIntergenerational storytelling and voiceNames and naming (writing them down)Haitian Kreyol and French (use in prose)Love, families, and relationshipsPolitical (state) violenceSymbols (fire, dolls, water, red ants, sea, etc.)Significance of skin colorPast in the present (Michel-Rolph Trouillot)Testimonio (first-person accounts, official documents)National mourningShifting identities and migrationOvercoming sufferingBeginnings, endings, and turning pointsRecommended readings – extra credit question(s)*–Review Guiding Questions for Close Reading HandoutPossible Question TypesI. Short AnswersA. Multiple ChoiceB. Key Terms & ConceptsC. Character AnalysisD. Quotation IDs (close readings)II. Short Essay (comparative) – compose a thesis-driven essay