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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Spring 2018 |
Registration ID | ENGLB239001 |
Course Title | African American Poetry |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies |
Instructor | Sullivan,Mecca Jamilah |
Times and Days | MW 02:40pm-04:00pm
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Room Location | EHLEC |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1696 This course explores the work of black poets in the Americas. Focusing on a range of poetic forms from the 18th century through the present, we will consider key questions that have animated the works of black poets in North America and the Caribbean, and how they have used poetic strategy to engage these questions. How do black poets explore black political and social life in various historical and geographical contexts? How do they use particular formal strategies (for example, form poetry, free verse, narrative poetry, and experimental modes) to interrogate notions of blackness? How do political movements around gender, class, and sexuality factor in? As we approach these questions, we will consider important critical conversations on African American poetry and poetics, examining how both well-known and underexplored poets use form to complicate blackness and imagine various forms of freedom. Our work will take us through several poetic genres and forms, including print works, performance poetry, hip hop music, and digital media. Throughout our analysis, we will consider how discourses on gender, sexuality, class, national and transnational identity, and other engagements with difference shape black poetic expression, both historically and in our current moment. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC), Critical Interpretation (CI);, ; Haverford: Humanities (HU) Enrollment Limit: 30; Enrollment Criteria: Major/Minor/Concentration; |
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