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Campus | Haverford |
Semester | Spring 2022 |
Registration ID | ENGLH264B001 |
Course Title | John Brown's Body: Terror's Refrain |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Africana Studies |
Instructor | Zwarg,Christina |
Times and Days | TTh 02:30pm-04:00pm
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Room Location | WDS |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2191 This course will use the spectacular life and death of John Brown to examine a common set of interests in a diverse set of texts produced across two centuries. These interests include terrorism and the place of violence in the cause of liberty, the relationship of aesthetic value to changing social and political claims, the role of race and gender in the construction of emancipatory rhetoric, and the role of that same rhetoric in the creation (or conservation) of a cultural and national sense of history.; Enrollment Limit: 25 Div: III; Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); Humanities, B: Analysis of the Social World, A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (; Hav: HU, B, A) Open to first year students. |
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