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Expressive Arts and Cultural Studies (420-0-20)

Topic

Black Expressive Arts

Instructors

Nicole Adeyinka Spigner

Meeting Info

Crowe 5-138 Af Am Studies Sem: Wed 2:00PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

Utilizes slave narratives, fiction, poetry, music, drama, critical theory, and the visual arts to survey how African-descended writers, artists, and theorists have grappled with such issues as: the relationship to Africa; self-articulation and struggle; performance as a site of knowledge production and contestation; and the global circulation of Black cultural production.