History of Hausa literature 3600-3-AF2-WLH1

I. Introduction to the course (problems of ethnogenesis and short history of the Hausa people; main categories of the Hausa literature).
II. Oral literature (Hausa fable - classification, function and origin; myths and legends; riddles; proverbs; tongue-twisters; praise epithets; praise songs; popular songs-admonitions; wedding songs and others; formal and metric features of the oral poetry).
III. Genesis of the Hausa writings (factors contributing to the development of writings in Arabic characters; literary output in Arabic; Arabic prose of the Fulani jihad; the beginnings of written Hausa literature).
IV. Religious poetry (homiletic poetry - inspiration, contents and style of the homiletic poems, genre representatives; praise poems - inspiration, contents and style, genre representatives, secular tendencies; biographic poems; poems on religious duties; ascetic poems; astrological and numerological poems; historical and political poems; elegies; poetic techniques and versification forms - metre and rhyme, information values of ramzi).
V. On the borderline of oral and written traditions (historical chronicle - genre representatives, structure and special features; Abuja chronicle as an example of the historical prose; chronicles written in the Hausa diaspora; historical value of the Hausa chronicles; historical and ethnographic stories).
VI. The beginnings of contemporary prose (material basis of the development of writings in the Latin script (boko); first novels as aftermath of a literary competition; post-war novels - realistic and fantastic streams, picaresque novel, first science-fiction novel; social and political problems in novels written in 1980.; autobiographies, biographies and memoirs; travel descriptions, political pamphlets).
VII. Dramaturgy output (dramaturgy traditions in the Hausa country; the beginnings of the written dramas; marriage and family problems; problems of children and youths upbringing; history and tradition in the Hausa drama).
VIII. Contemporary poetry (precursors of the secular poetry; the poetry of the most prominent poets; poetry in the mass-media).
IX. The phenomenon of the Kano market literature (genesis, the most important authors, the problems dealt with, film-making on the basis of love novels).
X. Evaluation of the Hausa literature (Hausa criteria of evaluation of the literary work; Hausa literature as compared with some other local literatures; translations and adaptations into Hausa of the world-known literary pieces).