Dr. Osotsi 3 credits

          This course is centered on the prose fiction of Ayi Kwei Armah. Since 1969, when he first published The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Armah has come out with novels that are well grounded in the history and artistic tradition of the African peoples. This focus has made him one of the most innovative, consistent and stylistically interesting writers today. In his works that include poetry and prose fiction and essays, Armah relocates the African people at the center of our history, a perspective that is difficult for a lot of “modern” literary theory to understand or address. This writer remains active today, always bringing forth new works that challenge the reader on many levels. We shall study Two Thousand Seasons, Fragments, Why Are We So Blest?, Osiris Rising, and KMT, among others. Apart from these and other works, we shall also utilize criticism relevant to the understanding of issues at the heart of this writer’s concerns. This course fulfills the undergraduate English Majors requirements for Major Author, Alternative Canons, and Period.

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