Class Id: 8730
Days: M
Start Time: 01:00 PM
End Time: 03:50 PM
Building: FIRES
Room: B02J
Course Id: 3857
Departments and Numbers: AAS 556, ENG 556
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Title: African-American Literature: Black Literary & Musical Bohemias & the Politics of Subculture
Description: Examines black literary and musical subcultures, late 19th century to present. Explores various canonical and "fringe" texts that theorize the poetics of intellectual and aesthetic bohemian subcultures in relation to race, class, gender and sexuality. Interrogates the intersections of black literary and musical production in the creation of radical alternative communities. Minstrelsy, ragtime, blues, jazz, punk and hip hop subcultures will serve as socio-cultural sites of inquiry as will various social "scenes": 19th-century African American reading circles, black women's club movement, Harlem Renaissance cabaret, Afrofuturism.
Prerequisites:
Professors: Daphne A. Brooks
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