ENGL 274

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Literature and Society

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Credit: 3 hours.

Major literary works presented within the context of social issues of their time.

May be repeated with the permission of English advising office to a maximum of 6 hours if topics vary. Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Lit & Arts

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ENGL 274 class schedule data for fall 2017
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	69767	Lecture-Discussion	S	2:00PM -4:50PM	TR	Armory	Jenkins, C	Part of Term: B Date Range: 10/23/17-12/13/17 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Section Title: 21st Century African Section Info: Topic: 21st Century African American Lit & Culture. This course will focus on black American literary and cultural production from the first (nearly) two decades of the 21st century. Looking at major, often award-winning cultural texts, we will examine how these texts have responded to notable historical events of this period—particularly events that have had a significant effect on black communities, such as Hurricane Katrina and the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement. We will also consider what has been called the “historical turn” in black literary fiction, including renewed attention to this nation’s history of slavery, as well as other trends in African American expressive culture, including a burgeoning interest in science fiction, fantasy, and the speculative (often collected under the rubric of Afro-futurism). Overall, we will situate 21st century black literary and cultural works within their broad social context, and consider how those works both extend and diverge from a longer history of African American expression. Primary texts will include fiction and memoir, poetry, drama, and film, including documentary film, from writers and artists including Edward P. Jones, Jesmyn Ward, Paul Beatty, Spike Lee, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Kiese Laymon, Kai Ashante Wilson, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Ava DuVernay, and Kaitlyn Greenidge.