Kursthemen
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Dear all,
Please keep checking this space before your weekly session, as I will be posting the latest announcements about the seminar here.
Please browse through the seminar outline and reader below. Please check/read/watch the readings/videos for the first session beforehand. You may find that some readings in the reader are still missing (yellow marked), and will be added at a later date.
Kindly note that you are expected to obtain a copy of the primary texts/novels. Please let me know if that is a problem, and I will look into solutions.
Looking forward to meeting you all.
Pavan Malreddy -
Readings:
1. The Pearl of the Indian Ocean, Mohamed Duale, Jabril Abdullahi
2. Of tamarind & cosmopolitanism by Nuruddin Farah (in the reader)
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This session has two readings, and we will also discuss the short articles from the first session. We will try to look at the maritime connections of Africa mainly through the lens of Horn of Africa, Somalia in particular.
3. The absent pirate: exceeding justice in the Indian Ocean by Stephanie Jones
4. Which Way to the Sea, Please? by Nuruddin Farah -
Session 3
24.04.
5. India, Africa and the Indian Ocean by G.V.C. Naidu
6. The Complicating Sea: The Indian Ocean as Method by Isabel Hofmeyr
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Yvonne Owuor’s The Dragon Fly Sea
Review 1:
https://asianreviewofbooks.com/the-dragonfly-sea-by-yvonne-adhiambo-owuor/
Review 2:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/books/review/dragonfly-sea-yvonne-adhiambo-owuor.html
Review 3: BookReads -
Dragonfly Sea, session 2. alongside Frank Schulze-Engler's reading of the novel
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Session 6
22.05.
7. From British Lake to Afrasian Sea: Recalibrations of the Indian Ocean in Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea by Frank Schulze-Engler
8. Abdulrazak Gurnah’s fictions of the Swahili coast: Littoral locations and
amphibian aesthetics by Meg Samuelson
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By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah.
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Mid-Term exam
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Introduction to Chinese in Zambia
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A Casualty of Power
Power Point:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1l6FIaRRf93ZyNKvEWD9OUHjEMqgq2P2vIfiJ91iZAOk/edit?slide=id.g36294042f99_0_1#slide=id.g36294042f99_0_1
Reviews:
1. https://www.africabooklink.com/mukuka-chipantas-a-casualty-of-power-a-review-by-gilbert-braspenning/
2.https://chinaglobalsouth.com/podcasts/podcast-mukaka-chipanta-china-zambia-casualty-of-power/