ENGL 559

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Seminar Afro-American Lit

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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 2021
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	39298	Online	X	1:00PM -3:50PM	W	n.a.	Freeburg, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/25/21-05/05/21 Section Title: Chicago and Modern Life Lit Section Info: ENGL 559 Graduate Seminar - Chicago and Modern Life Literatures: Chicago, our neighbor to the North, has been and still is one of the most dynamic locations for the history and culture of black life after Emancipation. This course takes a mid twentieth-century snapshot of Chicago to examine how the great migration, labor conflicts, legal disputes over housing, became the rich fodder of black writers. This course takes a close look at the institutions that the black middle class created including, the enterprise of black literature itself as it emerged under different guises of art and performance. How did black writers, with their rigorous engagement with social, economic and political conditions in the US, interrogate Western humanism through Chicago’s urban context? This class’ focus on Richard Wright, Gwendolyn Brooks, William Attaway, and Lorraine Hansberry’s art will wrestle with how Chicago’s brutal industrial life and racial conflict reveal, despite its promises or failings, the challenges of transcending humanism(s) as a concept. In addition to the writers and artists mentioned, we will read essays by Sylvia Wynter, Saidiya Hartman, Albert Murray, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Jean Paul Sartre, Frantz Fanon, and Audre Lorde. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.