ENGL 460

Fall 2014 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 25-Dec 10

Lit of American Minorities

Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Advanced topics seminar exploring literary expressions of minority experience in America.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated with permission of English advising office to a maximum of 6 undergraduate hours. Graduate students may repeat as topics vary. Prerequisite: One year of college literature or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 460 class schedule data for fall 2014
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	42979	Lecture-Discussion	1G	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	Gregory Hall	Ruiz, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Brown & Black Existentialisms Section Info: Topic Section 1G: Brown and Black Existentialisms Within European circuits, existentialism reigned as a popular mode of inquiry during the mid-20th Century. Existentialist philosophers, literary scholars, novelists, and playwrights demanded attention to individual experience, different historical trajectories, the politics of alienation, and an acknowledgment of the body and its sensorial practices. Although rooted in Europe, existentialist thought influenced minoritarian writers abroad committed to the ideas of existence, meaning, consciousness, and specific Black and Brown ways of being within worlds. While Black existentialism arose at the height of the movement circa 1940s and 1950s, the term Brown existentialism has not been similarly documented within U.S. Brown literary and philosophical traditions. Instead of recovering an archive, however, we will expand historical parameters to create a language by which to speak of Brown existentialist thought as a relational mode of analysis in conversation with Blackness and philosophy. In this course, we will attend to the following questions: how do the tenets of existentialism help us reimagine Black and Brown life-worlds? What are the limitations of this school of thought in reference to gender, sexuality, and coloniality? And what is the relational and ideological function between existentialism and Black and Brown movements? To add, this course will focus on some of the following authors: Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Frantz Fanon, Thomas Rivera, Jos� Antonio Villarreal, Pedro Pietri, Tori Morrison, Josefina Niggli, Maria Irene Fortes, Salvador Plascencia, Jean Paul Sartre, and others. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	43577	Lecture-Discussion	1U	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	Gregory Hall	Ruiz, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Brown & Black Existentialisms Section Info: Topic Section 1U: Brown and Black Existentialisms Within European circuits, existentialism reigned as a popular mode of inquiry during the mid-20th Century. Existentialist philosophers, literary scholars, novelists, and playwrights demanded attention to individual experience, different historical trajectories, the politics of alienation, and an acknowledgment of the body and its sensorial practices. Although rooted in Europe, existentialist thought influenced minoritarian writers abroad committed to the ideas of existence, meaning, consciousness, and specific Black and Brown ways of being within worlds. While Black existentialism arose at the height of the movement circa 1940s and 1950s, the term Brown existentialism has not been similarly documented within U.S. Brown literary and philosophical traditions. Instead of recovering an archive, however, we will expand historical parameters to create a language by which to speak of Brown existentialist thought as a relational mode of analysis in conversation with Blackness and philosophy. In this course, we will attend to the following questions: how do the tenets of existentialism help us reimagine Black and Brown life-worlds? What are the limitations of this school of thought in reference to gender, sexuality, and coloniality? And what is the relational and ideological function between existentialism and Black and Brown movements? To add, this course will focus on some of the following authors: Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Frantz Fanon, Thomas Rivera, Jos� Antonio Villarreal, Pedro Pietri, Tori Morrison, Josefina Niggli, Maria Irene Fortes, Salvador Plascencia, Jean Paul Sartre, and others. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.