SLAVERY IN 20TH AND 21ST CENTURY FILM AND FICTION

Credit Hours: 3 · Undergraduate Upper-Level

This course studies how twentieth and twenty-first century reconstructions of slavery in American literature and film engage contemporary anxieties regarding race, gender, sexuality, and national identity. These neo-slave narratives often critique modernity; challenge how we think about history, evidence, memory, and trauma; and trouble narrative conventions. Cross-list: AAAS 398 .