| Course Title: Topics in African American Literature: 'Race and Sensory Perception in Nineteenth-Century American Literature' |
| Start Date: 09/07/2022 End Date: 12/20/2022 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2022 |
| Description: This literature course considers the role of the senses in imagining what Black freedom might look like. Can freedom be sensed? How are the senses shaped by politics, economics, and history? By examining a range of African American literary texts before 1900, we will track how Black writers such as Harriet Jacobs, Martin Delany, Charles Chesnutt, and Phillis Wheatley Peters have used literature to explore the intertwinement of political possibility with sensory perception. We will also draw upon a number of texts from the larger abolitionist movement. Our thinking will be guided by Black radical scholars such as Christina Sharpe and Rinaldo Walcott, as well as figures such as Karl Marx and W.E.B. Du Bois. |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities , MP - Multicultural Perspectives , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Alex Moskowitz | 413-538-2457 | amoskowitz@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 09/07/2022 - 12/20/2022 | Seminar | Monday | 01:30PM - 04:20PM | SHTK - Shattuck Hall | 318 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: 8 credits in English. | Take previously | Required |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| meets English department 1700-1900 requirement |
| Course Tags | ||
| AFCNA0001 | AFCNA: Africana Studies major | This course has been approved to count towards the Africana Studies major and/or minor. |
| AFCNA0001 | AFCNA: Africana Studies minor | This course has been approved to count towards the Africana Studies major and/or minor. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 18 | Enrollment: 14 | Available: 4 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: Blake; or, the Huts of America Author: Delany, Martin Copyright: 2017 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780674088726 Publisher: Harvard University Press |
Required | 22.00 |
| Title: David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World Author: Walker, David Copyright: 1993 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780933121386 Publisher: Black Classic Press |
Required | 8.95 |
| Title: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass & Incidents in the Life of a... Author: Douglass; Jacobs, Frederick; Harriet Copyright: 2004 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780345478238 Publisher: The Modern Library |
Required | 6.95 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |