2025 Spring > UGRD > AFRSTY > AFRSTY 280
Special Topics in Africana Studies
Course #: AFRSTY 280
Description:
Various specialized topics are offered once or twice under this heading. Topics change from year to year and are announced before the beginning of each semester.
| Section | Class Number | Schedule/Time | Instructor | Location | |
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| 01 | 10652 | TuTh 2:00 - 3:15 pm |
George,Sheldon Laurie | McCormack M01-0428 | |
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Session:
Regular
Class Dates:
01/27/2025 - 05/14/2025
Capacity:
20
Enrolled:
0
Status:
Open
Credits:
3/3
Class Notes:
How do novels by contemporary African American and Black British women writers encourage us to rethink our understandings of racial identity? This course examines the literary devices and narrative innovations employed by Black women writers in the US and the UK to represent the lives of black characters and black people more broadly. It reads these writers as responding to canonical representations of blackness through their own insistent presentations of the racial past and its possible futures, through their remaking of the literary genres of the canon that help generate representations of blackness, and through their reimagining of the very category of Black womanhood in new, more expansive and liberating ways. Authors include Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Jesmyn Ward, Helen Oyeyemi, Virginia Woolf, Rivers Solomon, and Octavia Butler.
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