AFRO 260

Spring 2022 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 18-May 4

Modern African American Literature and Culture

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Credit: 3 hours.

Same as CWL 260 and ENGL 260. See ENGL 260.

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

Cultural Studies - US Minority

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AFRO 260 class schedule data for spring 2022
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	49623	Lecture-Discussion	S	2:00PM -3:20PM	TR	Henry Administration Bldg	Hunt, I	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/22-05/04/22 Degree Notes: Cultural Studies - US Minority course. Section Info: SP22 ENGL 260 - What Will You Learn? This is a class about looking at art at a crossroads. We will explore the way the intersections of different artistic genres teach us new ways of looking. We will read across a raffish array of works--poems, paintings, films, photographs, plays, essays, short stories, and a novel--by people like Picasso, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Gertrude Stein, W. G. Sebald, Pierre Nora, Roland Barthes, Lorraine Hansberry, Nina Simone, and more. How might a story act like a photograph, a poem like an installation? How does the literary modernism of Stevens look different next to the visual cubism of Picasso? How does a play like Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun ask us to see it differently next to her closeted letters on lesbian love? What kinds of interpretation, what kinds of looking, does does all this mingling teach us? We will name as precisely as we can these lively interpretive approaches. Undermining divisions typically raised between genres with implications for those raised between each other, you will come to appreciate how the mixture of genres asks us to look differently at the world, at ourselves, and at the things we devalue around us. Through this purposeful convergence of art forms, you will come to appreciate that art is less what we see than how we see. Along the way, we will practice four kinds of reading fundamental to literary and cultural study. close reading, playing with theory, historicization, and something we'll call imperfecting: learning how to free your writing from the pressures of perfection and the mandate of mastery. We will practice all this as we recommit ourselves to the diversity and mysteries of the artistic imagination.