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ENG 4182

Canadian Literature: Seminar

3 units

Fall 2026 · Fugitivity and the (Post) Slavery North: Contemporary Canadian Fiction and Film on Nineteenth-Century Black Life

Topics

  • Enslavement and emancipation
  • Canadian Black history
  • Neo-slave narratives

Readings

  • Washington Black
    Esi Eduygen [as printed] · 2018 (as listed) · Listed course novel
  • American War
    Omar El-Akkad · 2018 (as listed) · Listed course novel
  • In The Upper Country
    Kai Thomas · 2024 (as listed) · Listed course novel
  • The Underground Railroad
    Colson Whitehead · 2018 (as listed) · Listed course novel
  • Steal Away (2025), film directed by Clement Virgo.
  • Harriet (2019), film directed by Kasi Lemmons.
  • Karolyn Smardz Frost, Steal Away Home (2018), coursepack excerpt.
  • Coursepack scholarship by Andrea Davis, Barrington Walker, Teresa Goddu, Laura Langer Cohen, Christina Sharpe, Fred Moten, Stefano Harney, and Ronald Cummings; titles unspecified.
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