ENGL 559

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Seminar Afro-American Lit

Credit: 4 hours.

May be repeated if topics vary. Prerequisite: One college course devoted entirely to an aspect of American literature or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 559 class schedule data for spring 2020
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	39298	Lecture-Discussion	X	12:00PM -2:50PM	W	135 English Building	Freeburg, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Section Title: Black Emancipation/Black Moder Section Info: Black Emancipation/Black Modernity - This course examines a variety of African American literatures from the Civil War to just before World War II. Current criticism in African American Studies discusses black social life and writing in terms of the “Afterlife of Slavery.” From a distance, because African Americans continued to suffer violent political exclusions, unfair labor practices, and police abuses after slavery, one can lose sight of the prominent legal, social, and economic changes that transformed the lives of black people after the Civil War—changes which ushered in the Great Migration era Jacob Lawrence’s art famously chronicled. By analyzing canonical figures such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, Charles Chesnutt, Ida B. Wells, and Zora Hurston, as well as the rise of black print cultures, this course interrogates the importance (or lack of) of black emancipation as an event. We will also read critical texts by William Sewell Jr., Albert Murray, LaMonda Horton-Stalling, Kenneth Warren, Jacqueline Goldsby, Daphne Brooks, and Bruno Latour. There will be very short weekly writing assignments, presentations, and a final paper. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.