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ENG 4120

Literary Theory: Seminar

3 units

Winter 2027 · What’s New in Critical Race Theory?

Topics

  • Critical race theory
  • Settler colonialism
  • Abolition
  • Literary form

Readings

  • On Cuddling: Loved to Death in the Racial Embrace
    Phanuel Antwi · 2023 · Required purchase; two weeks
  • Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Time Ahead
    Leanne Simpson · 2025 · Required purchase; two weeks
  • Borders, Human Itineraries, and All Our Relation
    Dele Adeyemo; Natalie Diaz; Nadia Yala Kisukidi; Rinaldo Walcott · 2024 · Required purchase; two weeks
  • Postcolonial Love Poem
    Natalie Diaz · Required purchase
  • Shona N. Jackson, Beyond Constraint: Middle/Passages of Blackness and Indigeneity in the Radical Tradition (2024), chapter “Work as Metaphor, Labour as Metonymy.”
  • Iyko Day, editor, “Palestine After Analogy,” Critical Ethnic Studies special issue (2024).
  • Tiffany Lethabo King, Red and Black Alchemies of Flesh: Conjuring A Decolonial and Abolitionist Now, video lecture.
  • Anthony Reed, Soundworks (2021), chapter “Amiri Baraka’s Poetics for a Post-Revolutionary Age.”
  • Deanna Reder, Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition (2022), excerpt.
  • Mahmoud Darwish, “Eleven Planets.”
  • Amiri Baraka, poetry and sound works discussed by Reed; titles unspecified.
  • Rita Wong and Fred Wah, Beholden, selections.
  • Jordan Abel, Nishga, selections.
  • Leanne Simpson, As We Have Always Done, selections.
  • Katherine McKittrick, Dear Science, selections.
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