Topics in African Literatures and Cult
English · 3 hrs Lecture
Offered: Every Year
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Description
This course examines various topics within African and African Diaspora literatures and cultures in English. Topics may focus on specific literary and cultural tropes, themes, movements, or traditions such as negritude; nativism and Afrocentrism; critical and anticolonial realism; socialist realism; postcolonial disillusionment; animist and magical realism; African feminisms; migration, transnationalism, and Afropolitanism; racism; double consciousness; among others. The course may also focus on particular genres or authors. This course may be repeated for credit when the topic varies.
Requisite courses
6 credit hours of First-Year English, including either ENGL-1001(6) or ENGL-1000(3) [prerequisite(s)].
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