Arts, Sciences, and Engineering African & African-American Studies
Course Section Listing Course Course Title Term Credits Status
COURSE_SECTION-3-124542 AAAS 269-1 Contemporary African Film and Fiction Spring 2022 4.0 - 0.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 AM 1220 PM Meliora Room 218
Enrollment: Enrolled     
16 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: AAAS 269-1, ENGL 238-2 (P), FMST 280-1
Instructors: Matthew Omelsky
Description: The 21st century has seen an exciting array of fiction and film emerge from the African continent, a development that contributes vitally to global black culture. Mainstays of this new generation of narrative include sci-fi, fantasy, and horror; themes of climate change, transnational migration, and the space of LGBTQ life; as well as a proliferation of generic and formal experiments across media and platforms. In this course, we’ll study novels, short stories, narrative films, and web film series by artists from Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Morocco and elsewhere to understand how artists from the continent imagine the relationship between culture and history, hope and anxiety, home and world. Writers and filmmakers will include Chimamanda Adichie, Wanuri Kahiu, NoViolet Bulawayo, Dilman Dila, Nnedi Okorafor, Andrew Dosunmu, among others. 
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
Course Section Listing Course Course Title Term Credits Status
COURSE_SECTION-3-107942 AAAS 269-1 Contemporary African Film and Fiction Spring 2021 4.0 - 0.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 325 PM 440 PM Online Room 12 (ASE)
Enrollment: Enrolled     
18 		Capacity     
No Cap
Co-Located: AAAS 269-1, ENGL 238-2 (P), FMST 280-1
Instructors: Matthew Omelsky
Description: The 21st century has seen an exciting array of fiction and film emerge from the African continent, a development that contributes vitally to global black culture. Mainstays of this new generation of narrative include sci-fi, fantasy, and horror; themes of climate change, transnational migration, and the space of LGBTQ life; as well as a proliferation of generic and formal experiments across media and platforms. In this course, we’ll study novels, short stories, narrative films, and web film series by artists from Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Morocco and elsewhere to understand how artists from the continent imagine the relationship between culture and history, hope and anxiety, home and world. Writers and filmmakers will include Chimamanda Adichie, Wanuri Kahiu, NoViolet Bulawayo, Dilman Dila, Nnedi Okorafor, Andrew Dosunmu, among others.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer