Humanities 211
Culture(s) & Literature of Africa
(Oral Arts &  Film)
Prof.
Cora Agatucci


6 October 1998: Learning Resources
 http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/SocSci/1998/ss-981006.html

 Online COURSE PACK ~ Table of Contents
HUM 211 ~ Open Campus ~ Winter 2002

  Ed. Cora Agatucci

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1.  Introduction

Images of Africa 
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/images.htm
   Interview with Ali Mazrui
   Issues in African History
   Interview with Chinua Achebe
See also
Hum 211 Discussion #1 Forum
Student Reports on Topic #1:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/discussions/disc1_frm.htm

Cross-Cultural Study: Some Considerations
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/crossculture.htm
 
[More from]  Interview with Chinua Achebe
   Message from Ron Mpho Shea Solberg
   An Arena of Learning and Change
   Cross-Cultural Translation
   A Code of Conduct for "Cross-Boundary Discourse"
See also
Hum 211 Discussion #1 Forum
Student Reports on Topic #2:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/discussions/disc1_frm.htm

2. Traditional African Oral Arts

In Praise of the Word: Traditional African Oral Arts
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/oralarts.htm
   Orality and Literacy
   A Twi Proverb
   Ikemefuna's Song
   Fulani Poetic Genres
   African Music & Cultures
African Praise Songs
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/praisesongs.htm
  
What's in an African name? 
   "Ambara, The Interpreter"

   More Dogon Tiges, or Praise Songs
   Contemporary Praise Songs
  
Link to Student Praise Songs (Hum 211, Fall 2000)
See also
Hum 211 Discussion #1 Forum
Student Reports on Topic #3:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/discussions/disc1_frm.htm

Keita: The Heritage of the Griot
Keita Film Notes
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/keita.htm
   Film Plot Summary
   Film Sequence & Scene Notes

The Epic of Sundjata
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/sundjata.htm
   On Translating Orature into Literature
   Summary of the Epic Story of Sundjata
The Mali Empire & Griot Traditions
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/maligriot.htm
African Oral Epics [An Introduction]:

http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/oralepics.htm
plus...Web Sources: West African Cultures & Griots' Musical Instruments
    A Spirit Song Honoring the Kora
    Proverbs in Keita
See also
Hum 211 Discussion #1 Forum
Student Reports on Topic #4:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/discussions/disc1_frm.htm
"The Past to Future Keita"
 
Student Writing by Dawn Hendrix (Hum 211, Fall 1998):
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/students/hendrix.htm
"The Significance of the Griot"  
Student Writing by Eli Smith (Hum 211, Fall 2000):
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/students/smith.htm

3. African Holocaust & Diaspora

The African Diaspora: Backgrounds
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/Diaspora.htm
     Definitions: African "Holocaust" & "Diaspora"
     "Involuntary Immigrants"
     WWW Links on African Diaspora
Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797)
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/Equiano.htm
   
1789: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano,
        or Gustava Vassa
,
one of the first slave narratives, is published in English.
     Summary of Equiano's Story
     1789 Review of Equiano's Narrative
     The Modern Importance of Equiano's Slave Narrative
     More WWW Links
See also
Hum 211 Discussion #2 Forum
Student Reports on Topic #1:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/discussions/disc2_frm.htm
Amistad: The True Story
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/Amistad.htm
     "Exploring Amistad at Mystic Seaport"
     Amistad: The Film
See also
Hum 211 Discussion #2 Forum
Student Reports on Topic #2:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/discussions/disc2_frm.htm

I Is a Long Memoried Woman
Introduction to the film
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/womanintro.htm
Film Notes: Table of Contents:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/womanTOC.htm
  1.  The Beginning [The Middle Passage & "Days That Fell"]
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/woman1.htm
  2.  The Vicissitudes [Slavery in New World " Killing Fields" of Sugar Cane]

http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/woman2.htm
  3.  The Sorcery [The Obeah Woman Works Magic]
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/woman3.htm
  4.  The Bloodling [Sweet tainted perfect child, swim...]
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/woman4.htm
  5.  The Return [Rebellion, Return, & Closing]
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/woman5.htm
See also Hum 211 Discussion #2 Forum
Student Reports on Topic #3:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/discussions/disc2_frm.htm

Religions of the New World Diaspora
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/DiasporaReligion.htm
Hum 211 Links: Diaspora more African-Caribbean web resources:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/linksdiaspora.htm
See also
Hum 211 Discussion #2 Forum
Student Reports on Topic #4:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/discussions/disc2_frm.htm

4. Chinua Achebe &
Things Fall Apart

Introduction to African Literature: Literary-Cultural Contexts
(Slide Presentation Outline Week #5 TV Meeting: Tues., Feb. 5, 2002): 
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/introafricanlit.htm
Things Fall Apart Study Guide:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/achebTFA.htm 
Chinua Achebe In His Own Words
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/achebe2.htm
See also
Hum 211 Discussion #3 Forum
Student Literary Journal Reports on Things Fall Apart:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/discussions/disc3_frm.htm

1992 Achebe Interview Excerpt:
"'If One Thing Stands, Another Will Stand Beside It'...":
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/achebe1992.htm
Reviews of Chinua Achebe's Essay Collections:
Morning Yet on Creation Day (1975) | Hopes and Impediments (1988):
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/achebereview.htm
"Things Fall Apart: The Loss of a Tribe's Livelihood"
Student Writing by Chris Shepherd (Hum 211, Fall 1998):
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/students/shepherd.htm

More Background Resources:
African Story Telling
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/afrstory.htm
African Authors: Chinua Achebe (Table of Contents):
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/achebe.htm
African Oral Arts
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/oralarts.htm
Cross-Cultural Studies: Some Considerations includes excerpts from an Interview with Chinua Achebe:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/crossculture.htm
Images of Africa more excerpts from Interview with Chinua Achebe:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/images.htm

Of Related Interest:
Africa and Africans in [Joseph] Conrad's Heart of Darkness, by Candice Bradley, includes "Achebe's Critique & Images of Illness in Africa":
http://www.freespeech.org/james/conrad/heart.htm

Achebe, Chinua.  "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness."  In Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays. [By Chinua Achebe.]  1988. New York: Anchor-Doubleday, 1990.  1-20.
During Winter 2002, Cora has placed Hopes and Impediments, by Chinua Achebe, on COCC Library Reserve.  
At other times, this book can be checked out from 
COCC Library (2nd floor)
Call Number:
PR9387.9.A3 H6 1990

Chinua Achebe: A World of Ideas [videotape].  Interview with Chinua Achebe, conducted by Bill Moyers and aired on Bill Moyers' PBS television series A World of Ideas (1989).  PBS Video, Public Affairs Television, WNET/New York and WWTTW/Chicago, Alexandria, VA; 1989. Films for the Humanities, 1994. 28 min.

5. Tsitsi Dangarembga
& Nervous Conditions

African Authors:  Tsitsi Dangarembga
including Nervous Conditions Study Guide
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/dangarembga.htm

Oumou Sangaré 
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/Sangare.htm

More Background Resources:
African Films: Everyone's Child 
(Media for Development Trust, Zimbabwe, 1996), directed by Tsitsi Dangarembga, dramatizes the tragic story of one Zimbabwean family devastated by AIDS. COCC Library AV holding
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/afrfilm.htm

African Women Links
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/linkswomen.htm

The Rest of the Online Course Pack is Under Construction

Bolick, Katie.  "After Apartheid."  [Interview with Nadine Gordimer.] Atlantic Unbound 9 Feb. 2000.
 http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/ba2000-02-09.htm 

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