Writing Slavery
Explores the controversial rewriting of slavery in a presentist context by contemporary authors. Addresses challenges that archival limitations and revisionist writings about slavery pose for academic disciplines, literary instruction, and/or pedagogy. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 330P, English 323E, Women's and Gender Studies 340 (Topic 31), 340W. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Prerequisites & course information
Explores the controversial rewriting of slavery in a presentist context by contemporary authors. Addresses challenges that archival limitations and revisionist writings about slavery pose for academic disciplines, literary instruction, and/or pedagogy. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 330P, English 323E, Women's and Gender Studies 340 (Topic 31), 340W. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027