Thursday, January 12, 2012

A Short Analytical Paper: Recommended Novels - Africa



Introduction to African Studies

INTL/BST 211 / UNST 233

(Africana, Africa and Black Studies from an Afrocentric Perspective)

Instructor: Tugrul Keskin

Office: 333 East Hall International Studies

Cell Phone: 202-378-8606

Office Hours: Tuesday 1:00 - 4:00 PM or by appointment

E-mail: tugrulkeskin@pdx.edu (PLEASE include “African Studies” in the subject line)

Mentor: Murna Majam (Moornah) - E-mail: murna@pdx.edu

Short Analytical Papers: In this requirement, you will select a novel written by a famous African novelist, and will review (summarize and critique) the novel based on our textbooks and our class discussions and present in the class for five to ten minutes. This paper should be at least 2000 words in length. You will find a list of recommended novels and novelists below. You must provide a word count at the end of your paper. The paper is due on March 5th by midnight.

Please check the list below, select a book from this list, and then send Murna Majam (Mentor Session Assistant) an e-mail murna@pdx.edu specifying on which book you would like to write your review.

Recommended Novels -

1. Things Fall Apart: A Novel

The God of Small Things: A Novel

A Man of the People

Facing Mount Kenya

No Sweetness Here and Other Stories

A Grain of Wheat (African Writers Series)

Tsotsi: A Novel

So Long a Letter (African Writers Series)

Joys of Motherhood

Purple Hibiscus: A Novel

The River Between

Efuru (African Writers)

Petals of Blood

Nervous Conditions

God's Bits of Wood

July's People

Mother to Mother (Bluestreak)

Arrow of God

Girls at War

One is Enough (African Women Writers Series)

21. Xala

Khabzela: The Life and Times of a South African

23. The Slave Girl: A Novel by Buchi Emecheta

Never Again (Africa Women Writers Series)

African Perspectives on Colonialism (The Johns H...

Changes: A Love Story

Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali (Revised Edition) (Lon...

African Short Stories

Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol (African Writers)

The Famished Road

The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of...

Chaka (African Writers)

Houseboy (African Writers)

The Concubine

Yoruba Trickster Tales

No Longer at Ease

Death and the King's Horseman (Norton Critica...

Unbowed: A Memoir (Vintage)

Scarlet Song

Nehanda

Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa

Oroonoko (Penguin Classics)

Second Class Citizen

Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf

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