Graduate Topics in African American Studies (480-0-22)

Instructors

Justin Mann

Meeting Info

University Hall 418: Thurs 2:00PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

In this course students will assess how the novel has figured in the development of Black literature and life over the long 20th Century. Through our engagement with this form, student's will examine how long-form narrative fiction has captured the historical and social realities of Black life since the turn of the 21st century and how it has called for different worlds through innovative technique and style. We will read topically from the end of the 19th century through to the 21st century and will consider how the novel has evolved as a form that takes in multiple genres. In addition to fiction, students will also read theories of narrative written by black and non-black authors to better understand how narrative works.