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Analysis Papers The analysis papers for this class offer you an exciting opportunity to select a topic from the literature we are reading and explore connections between the literary works and the historical, cultural, social, and political situation of Africa. In these papers I want to see you focus your thinking, develop and push your analysis to figure out and understand the issues we are exploring in class. Choose topics that seem to you important, that you care about, and that you want to better understand. I suggest that you don't simply create an outline in advance, but that you let the process of writing, searching in texts, and research go hand-in-hand so that writing itself becomes a mode of critical inquiry. Thus it makes sense to begin with a question rather than a thesis statement, to write about ideas and texts, expand, develop, explore, and then to focus in, rearrange, and rewrite to organize and clarify. The first paper asks you to draw on class texts, research, and your own thinking to analyze an issue from the period of the European colonization of Africa. Here are sample papers: Reanne Asbury, Ashley Wiskowski, or Lindsey Adams. The second paper asks you to focus on a contemporary issue in one or more literary works. Samples: Ashley Wiskowski. These papers should be a minimum of seven pages -- more welcome! Created by: allen.webb@wmich.edu
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