African storytellers entertain, educate, and comment obliquely on sensitive and controversial issues in artful performance. The course considers motifs, structures, and interpretations of trickster tales and other folktales, storytellers performance skills, and challenges to presenting oral narrative in written and film texts. The course also explores ways traditional storytelling has inspired African social reformers and artists, particularly filmmakers. Students will have opportunities to view films in class.
Courses > 2019 Fall
Electives
401 | SEM | Pamela Blakely | T 4:30-7:30pm | WILL 741
Electives
CIMS 222 - STORYTELLING IN AFRICA
AFRC 223 | ANTH 223401 | SEM | Pamela Blakely | T 4:30-7:30pm | WILL 741