| Course Title: Topics in African American Literature: 'The Theory of the Early African American Novel' |
| Start Date: 01/23/2023 End Date: 05/08/2023 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2023 |
| Description: This course examines the beginning of the African American novelistic tradition in the nineteenth century alongside a range of literary and cultural theory drawn from Marxism, cultural studies, and novel theory to consider how early African American writers produced strange, unique, and new experimental forms of literature that both responded to the political economy of racial capitalism while also redefining literary history. We will explore how the novel-a fictional form -- imagines abolitionist futures, while also tracking the role it played within nineteenth -- century abolitionist politics. Writers may include Hannah Crafts, William Wells Brown, Harriet Wilson, Stuart Hall, and Georg Lukacs. |
| 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 |
| 01/23/2023 - 05/08/2023 | Seminar | Tuesday and Thursday | 03:15PM - 04:30PM | SHTK - Shattuck Hall | 217 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: ENGL-199 or 4 credits in English. | Take previously | Required |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| This course meets the English department's 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 |
| ENGL-254EN-01 Early African American Novel |
| AFCNA-241EN-01 Early African American Novel |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 18 | Enrollment: 9 | Available: 9 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: Clotel; or, The President?s Daughter Author: Wells Brown, William Copyright: Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780142437728 Publisher: Penguin |
Required | 14.00 |
| 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 |
| Title: Our Nig Author: Wilson, Harriet Copyright: Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780143105763 Publisher: Penguin |
Required | 12.00 |
| Title: The Garies and Their Friends Author: Webb, Frank J. Copyright: Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9781554811519 Publisher: Broadview Press |
Required | 21.95 |
| Title: Blake; or, the Huts of America Author: Delany, Martin Copyright: 2017 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780674088726 Publisher: Harvard University Press |
Required | 22.00 |
| Title: The Marrow of Tradition Author: Chesnutt, Charles Copyright: Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780140186864 Publisher: Penguin |
Required | 16.00 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |