EMAIL<\/a> | SYLLABUS<\/a> | POLICIES<\/a> | QUESTIONS<\/a> | PRESENTATIONS<\/a> | JOURNALS<\/a> | PAPER<\/a> | FINAL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Assigned: \u201cOn the Abolition of the English Department\u201d (1995-2000 in Leitch, Vincent B. and William E. Cain, eds. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.<\/em> 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 2010. ISBN 978-0-393-93292-8).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. On 1995-2000, Ngugi and his fellow academics argue straightforwardly that the English Department of the University of Nairobi, Kenya should be abolished. What statements best elucidate what the authors believe is wrong with the status quo at the university \u2013 i.e. with the way the English Department is educating its students and indeed with its very existence as a remnant of colonial power?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. On 1995-2000, Ngugi and his fellow academics at the University of Nairobi don\u2019t simply discuss what\u2019s wrong with the status quo; they set forth their own positive vision of what the university ought<\/em> to be doing by way of literary and cultural education. What remarks best explain Ngugi, Liyong and Owuor-Anyumba\u2019s conception of an institution of higher learning\u2019s mission? That is, how do they articulate their university\u2019s responsibilities towards its students, and, much more broadly, towards the people of Kenya and even the continent of Africa?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. On 1995-2000, Ngugi and his fellow academics at the University of Nairobi may be suggesting bluntly that the English Department be replaced by a Department of African Literature and Languages, but they\u2019re not at all heaping scorn on European literature. So what role do they suggest that British literature, Russian novels, French poetry, African-American literature, Asian literatures, and the like ought to play in the new educational framework they promote? Moreover, what alteration do they suggest in the relative balance between the British texts and the continental European texts to be taught?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. On 1995-2000, we know that Ngugi and the piece\u2019s other authors wrote as they did in the 1960s context of an African continent a good part of which was just emerging from European colonial domination. Clearly, they saw \u201cself-understanding\u201d as part of the value in literary and cultural study. Here in the United States, to what extent might students and professors inflect or adapt their anti-colonial framework to suit American higher education? Do you think the English department\u2019s curriculum at your own school adequately reflects and explores the complex historical, literary and cultural experience of the United States? Why or why not?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. On 1995-2000, Ngugi and the piece\u2019s other authors place a great deal of emphasis on the centrality of the oral tradition in Kenyan and indeed African literature more broadly. What new approach to the humanities would be encouraged by stressing such a tradition alongside so-called standard literary works from African and other cultures? In responding, see 1998 in particular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NGUGI WA THIONG\u2019O QUESTIONS FOR E256 LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISMCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY, FALL 2012 Assigned: \u201cOn the Abolition of the English Department\u201d (1995-2000 in Leitch, Vincent B. and William E. Cain, eds. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 2010. ISBN 978-0-393-93292-8). \u201cOn the Abolition of the English Department\u201d 1. On […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"wf_page_folders":[18],"class_list":["post-1176","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4812,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1176\/revisions\/4812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wf_page_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_page_folders?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\u201cOn the Abolition of the English Department\u201d<\/h3>\n\n\n\n