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CIMS 2230 - STORYTELLING IN AFRICA

AFRC 2230 | ANTH 2230
401 | SEM | Pamela Blakely | TR 5:15-8:15pm | WILL 843

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.