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| Campus | Haverford |
| Semester | Spring 2024 |
| Registration ID | ENGLH361B001 |
| Course Title | Topics in African-American Lit: Representations of American Slavery |
| Credit | 1.00 |
| Department | Visual Studies |
| Instructor | Solomon,Asali |
| Times and Days | W 01:30pm-03:55pm
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| Room Location | LUT230 |
| Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2283 For the past three centuries African American writers have mined the experience of chattel slavery in the cause of literal and artistic emancipation. Slave narratives, as well as poetry, essays and novels depicting slavery, constitute a literary universe so robust that the term subgenre does it injustice. In this work spanning the 18th-21st centuries, the reader will find pulse-quickening plots, gruesome horror, tender sentiment, heroism, degradation, sexual violation and redemption, as well as resonant meditations on language and literacy, racial identity, power, psychology, democracy, freedom and the human character. This course is focused primarily on prose representations of slavery in the Americas. Our discussions will incorporate history, but will foreground literary and cultural analysis. Humanities, A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (; Hav: HU, A) |
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