ENGL 559

Fall 2022 All Classes

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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 fall 2022
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	43014	Lecture-Discussion	R	12:30PM -2:50PM	R	English Building	Freeburg, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/22-12/07/22 Section Info: FA22 ENGL 559, Chris Freeburg The Era of Slavery Studies This course charts the era of slavery studies from the 1960s to the present. Several overlapping movements, political, scholarly, and artistic form the origins of how and why slavery took center stage in African American aesthetics movements. To address this reality we’re asking, what were the archives that museum curators, editors, and scholars looked at when they felt inspired to revisit nineteenth century slave narrative and ethnographic accounts of slave life? How did the political struggles in US cities and on college campuses shape the formation of novels like Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Octavia Butler’s Kindred? This course is about the relationship between nineteenth century archives and late twentieth century knowledge production with a special focus on the role of slave narrative. We will cover the critical work of Sylvia Wynter, Hortense Spillers, John Blassingame, and Saidiya Hartman as well as the writings of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Octavia Butler, and Sherley Anne Williams. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.