African Animist Literature and Arts

3.00 credits · Undergraduate

Prereq: 6 credits from ENGL at the 2000 level; or permission of the Department This course focuses on Animist Realism in African and African Diasporic literatures and visual arts.?The course material includes literary texts, film material, sculpture, and paintings to analyze how the concept of Animist Realism spread from Africa with the slave trade to become Magic Realism in the African Diaspora. (Format: Lecture 3 Hours) (Exclusion: ENGL 3991 Literature as Virus; ENGL 3991 African Animist Arts)