Section Info: ENGL-254TR-01

Course Title: Topics in African American Literature: 'Tragicomedy in Black: Humor and Horror in Black Critical Expression'

Start Date: 01/23/2023 End Date: 05/08/2023

Term: Spring Semester 2023

Description: The course examines horror and comedy as genre conventions that become strained and distorted when bent to the demands of black critical expression. This course will center on themes of life and death as they are framed in black film and literature through idioms of the absurd and the ghastly. We will encounter film and writing by Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Chester Himes, Toni Morrison, Danielle Fuentes Morgan, Bill Gunn, and Donald Glover. Students will learn how to close-read our media-saturated environment, thinking through the ways in which representation functions to condition our perception of enjoyment and terror.

Distribution(s): I - Humanities , MP - Multicultural Perspectives , SI - Speaking-Intensive , WI - Writing-Intensive , TP - Topics Course

Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate

Credits:4.00

Faculty	Phone	Email address
Kristen Maye		kmaye@mtholyoke.edu

Meeting Dates	Method	Meeting days	Meeting times	Building name	Room	Frequency
01/23/2023 - 05/08/2023	Seminar	Thursday	01:30PM - 04:20PM	SHTK - Shattuck Hall	318	Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses
None

Comments

Additional Comments

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-254TR-01 Tragicomedy in Black

AFCNA-241TR-01 Tragicomedy in Black

Course Availability
Section status: Open	Capacity: 18	Enrollment: 16	Available: 2	Waitlist: 0

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List	Required	Publisher Full Price
To be determined.

Additional Book Comments

This is NOT the complete book list for this class.