239096 South African Fiction (S) (WiSe 2011/2012)

This course will survey examples of South African prose fiction from the end of WW II to the New South Africa of the last decade of the 20th and the first decade of the 21st century.
Class texts:
• J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace 1999
• Zakes Mda, The Madonna of Excelsior 2005
• and a few short stories that will be available in form of a reader at our first meeting.
Recommended introductory reading:
• Attridge, Derek & Rosemary Jolly (eds.), Writing South Africa. Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy 1970 – 1995. Cambridge UP 1995
2 credit points can be earned by regular attendance and an oral presentation, 3 credit points require an essay in addition.