Seminar: 3.02.970 S From Things Fall Apart to Freshwater: Spirit Children in Anglophone Nigerian Writing - Details

Seminar: 3.02.970 S From Things Fall Apart to Freshwater: Spirit Children in Anglophone Nigerian Writing - Details

General information

Course name Seminar: 3.02.970 S From Things Fall Apart to Freshwater: Spirit Children in Anglophone Nigerian Writing
Subtitle
Course number 3.02.970
Semester WiSe25/26
Current number of participants 14
maximum number of participants 18
Home institute Institute of English and American Studies
Courses type Seminar in category Teaching
First date Tuesday, 14.10.25, 14:00 - 16:00 o'clock V03 2-A208
Type/Form
Lehrsprache englisch

Rooms and times

V03 2-A208

  • Tuesday, 14:00 - 16:00, Weekly (from 14.10.25)

Module assignments

Comment/Description

Objectives
In the course of this seminar, you will
- read some very well-known Anglophone Nigerian texts and reflect on their place in the field of postcolonial literatures.
- encounter the history of Anglophone Nigerian writing via the motif of spirit children.
- hone your close reading skills.
- engage with secondary literature.
- practise your presentation skills.
- develop individual research questions related to the seminar’s topic.

Please borrow or purchase and read these novels in the following editions (all of which will be made available in the Seminarapparat):
• Chinua Achebe [1958]. Things Fall Apart. London: Penguin, 2006. [ISBN ‎ 9780141023380]
• Ben Okri [1991]. The Famished Road. London: Vintage, 2021. [ISBN 9781529114911]
• Akwaeke Emezi [2018]. Freshwater. London: Faber & Faber, 2019. [ISBN 9780571345403]
Shorter texts (for instance a poem by Wole Soyinka) and secondary literature will be shared on Stud.IP.

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "ang971/2/3 981/2/3 991/2/3 MM LitKult".
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
    The seats in the affected courses have been assigned at 19.09.2025 on 08:00. Additional seats may be available via a waiting list.
  • This setting is active from 15.09.2025 06:00 to 19.09.2025 08:10.
    Enrolment is allowed for up to 1 courses of the admission set.
  • This setting is active from 15.09.2025 06:00 to 31.12.2025 23:59.
    At least one of these conditions must be fulfilled for enrolment:
    • Field of study is Englisch
    • Field of study is Anglistik
    • Degree is Anpassungslehrgang
    • Field of study is Gender Studies
    • Field of study is Deutsch als Fremdsprache/Deutsch als Zweitsprache
    • Field of study is English Studies
  • The enrolment is possible from 15.09.2025, 06:00 to 31.12.2025, 23:59.
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