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Instructors: Anne Bull
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.410
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Registration group: AS 410
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Requirements / organisational issues:
This class focuses on twenty-first-century African American literature from and about the American South. We will explore contemporary Black literary responses to a broad spectrum of socio-historic and political themes, ranging from the racialization of slavery in the early Americas to today’s racial landscape. Respectively, we will be discussing highly sensitive topics, including but not limited to racial violence and policing, drug addiction, depression, immigration, etc. Our primary sources consist exclusively of novels, making this a relatively reading-intensive class.
To facilitate preparation, the reading material is listed below in the order in which we will cover it in class. Obtaining the books as early as possible to avoid delays during the semester and to get a head-start on some of the readings, if possible, is recommended.
- Toni Morrison, A Mercy (2008)
- Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad (2016)
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer (2019)
- Kiese Laymon, Long Division (2013/2021)
- Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017)
- Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom (2020)
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