ENGL 261

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Topics in Lit and Culture

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Credit: 3 hours.

Introductory study of variety of topics in literature and culture, including those that bridge traditional historical periods, focus on themes or movements, and cross disciplinary boundaries.

May be repeated up to 6 hours in same or separate terms if topics vary. Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement.

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ENGL 261 class schedule data for fall 2018
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	65535	Lecture-Discussion	Q	3:30PM -4:45PM	MW	104 English Building	Jenkins, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/18-12/12/18 Section Title: BlackGirlMagic in Cont Culture Section Info: BlackGirlMagic in Contemporary Culture (Black Women’s Literature and Film, 1970-Present) This course will serve as an introduction to post-Civil Rights black women's literature and film. We will cover a selection of major late 20th and early 21st century authors and filmmakers, examining works from several genres—including, on the literary side, fiction, poetry, essay, and memoir, and on the cinematic side, documentary, feature, and short film. Taking seriously the theoretical and critical implications of the popular hashtag “#blackgirlmagic,” we will consider how contemporary black women’s artistry speaks to the unique experiences of African American women as well as to broader questions of identity, various forms of inequality, and social justice. We will ask whether there are particular artistic practices, political standpoints, or linguistic effects that mark certain visual and literary texts as “black women’s” texts, particularly now—and if so, what these are and how (and by whom) they are determined. We will also question how the black women artists we study address matters of race and nation, as well as atters of gender, sexuality, and class. In the process, we will consider how contemporary black women's cultural production both builds upon and moves beyond a long historical tradition of black women’s expression. Requirements: attendance/participation, weekly responses, midterm, presentation, final paper.
	66189	Lecture-Discussion	X	1:00PM -3:30PM	MW	150 English Building	Oh, R	Part of Term: B Date Range: 10/22/18-12/12/18 Section Title: Genres and Planetary Damage Section Info: Genres of Living on a Damaged Planet: From Nature/Culture to Naturecultures Why does so much environmental writing take the form of genre writing? As convention or norm, affective contract, or behavioral provocation, what are the capacities and limitations of common genres of environmental writing and what does the idea of genre more generally offer those who write about the environment? We will consider these questions by interrogating a range of media including images, film clips, poetry, and novels. Beginning with aesthetic genres like the sublime, pastoral and wilderness, which oppose nature and human culture, we will contrast these with other, more political genres such as apocalypse and slow violence, which foreground the human impact on nature or the mutual entanglement of humans with nature. In considering how genres of environmental writing have moved the idea of the environment, and human relations with it, gradually inward, we will ask how all these genres approach, represent, and theorize the future possibilities or the current realities of living on a damaged planet.