ClassInfo - Fall 2022 English Classes

Fall 2022 | ENGL 5300 Section 001: Readings in American Minority Literature -- Black Women's Fiction: The System and the Streets (31621)

Instructor(s): Ellen Messer-Davidow
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:: 9 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: Completely Online
Class Attributes:: Delivery Mode
Topics Course
Enrollment Requirements:: Graduate Student
Meets With:: GWSS 5390 Section 001
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

09/06/2022 - 12/14/2022

Thu 11:15AM - 01:45PM

Off Campus

UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:: Open (3 of 15 seats filled)
Also Offered:: Fall 2022

Course Catalog Description:: Contextual readings of 19th-/20th-century American minority writers. Topics specified in Class Schedule.
Class Notes:: Black Women's Fiction In this course, you will read three texts by Black women authors that depict the lives of Black people who are caged within the intricated systems of racism, sexism, classism, and nativism at different moments in modern American history. Saidiya Hartman's Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval (2019) reconstructs from archival documents and creative writing techniques the lives of Black women in New York and Philadelphia during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Ann Petry's The Street (1946) depicts, in both lyrical and raw prose, the struggles of Lutie Johnson who, during the mid-1940s, leaves her husband, works as a live-in maid for a wealthy white family in Connecticut, and then relocates with her young son to a harsh street in the Harlem ghetto. Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers (2016) follows the lives of a Cameroon family as the parents struggle for a financial toe-hold in New York during the 2007-2008 economic meltdown. These texts will be set in material that illuminates the historical, literary, and ideological contexts. This material will help you analyze (1) how the texts use language, narrative, and genre conventions; and (2) how the different modalities of literature, law, fact, and data reveal or hide aspects of systemic subjugation.
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