African and Black Diasporic Literature

3ch (3C) [W] · Undergraduate

Survey twentieth- and twenty-first century African and Black diasporic literature. Investigate representations of Blackness and how it is shaped by the politics of gender, sexuality, social class, nation, and empire. Gain an understanding of the cultural and historical contexts that inform artistic production. Cover key critical and theoretical concepts in the field of postcolonial studies such as mimicry, transnationalism, and revolution. Authors may include Chinua Achebe, Nuruddin Farah, Ama Ata Aidoo, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Jamaica Kincaid, Akwaeke Emezi , Langston Hughes, Lynn Nottage, M. NourbeSe Philip, and David Chariandy .