COURSE OUTLINE:

This course is about literature and the questions it leads us to ask of our contemporary world. We study the literature of recent decades - literature from South Africa and abroad.  One of our aims is to keep students abreast of current developments and debates within our discipline, and hence the works we choose to discuss are mostly related to the research interests of the lecturers. The texts and theories up for discussion vary slightly from year to year, but here is a broad outline of authors and themes you can expect to encounter in this capstone course: 
Coetzee and language
Nabokov and narrative
Space and time in the contemporary novel
Postcolonial literature
Feminist theory and feminist literature
The South Asian novel in English and postcolonial theory
Literature and environmentalism
Trauma and literature
World literature and theories of globalisation

Convenor: Dr Eric Strand, email: Eric.Strand@uct.ac.za
Level: Third-year, second-semester course, 2 lectures, 1 double-period seminar per week, 2 points
Entrance requirements: Any two second-years ELL courses or at the discretion of the Head of Department and ELL3005F, Modernism.
Lecture times:  Monday, Tuesday 6th period. 
DP requirements:  All written work to be handed in and at least 75% attendance at seminars.
Assessment: Seminar classwork counts for 50% of the final mark; class test and one two-hour examination counts for the remaining 50%

Prescribed Texts, 2013

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ELL3009S SEMINAR SERIES, 2013

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