AADS6301 · African and African Diaspora Studies

Seminar: Nineteenth-Century African American Literature and Culture

Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences

Seminar: Nineteenth-Century African American Literature and Culture This course will examine literary, art, performance, and other cultural texts from the long nineteenth century produced by, alongside, about, and/or significant to African American life and culture. The class will be organized around a critical topic which Black Studies, American Studies, and/or literary studies scholars have identified as significant to the discourse on this history and body of texts. In our examination of this topic we will engage a myriad of texts by diverse authors across different mediums and genres; explore a variety of nineteenth century US archives; and constantly interrogate the relationship between history and black literary and artistic production.