Section | Semester | Instructor | Time | Location | Course Areas |
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3 | Fall 2017 | Serpell, C. Namwali
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TTh 3:30-5 | 130 Wheeler |
Butler, Octavia: Dawn; Delaney, Samuel: Babel-17; Duffy, Damian: Kindred: A Graphic Novel; Johnson, Mat: Pym; LaValle, Victor: Destroyer; Laymon, Kiese: Long Division; Lovecraft, H.P.: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym; Schuyler, George: Black No More
Screenings of a Star Trek episode (1966), Sun Ra, Space is the Place (1974), John Sayles, The Brother from Another Planet (1984). Stories by Octavia Butler, Ray Bradbury, W.E.B. DuBois, Samuel Delaney, Derrick Bell.
This course addresses two genres—black fiction and science fiction—at their point of intersection, which is sometimes called Afrofuturism. The umbrella term “black fiction” will include texts that issue out of and speculate about the African-American experience. The category “science fiction” will comprise texts that speculate about alternative, cosmic, dystopian, and future worlds. Overlapping—and mutually transforming—concepts will include: genetics, race, diaspora, miscegenation, double consciousness, technology, ecology, biology, language, history, futurity, space (inner and outer), and, of course, the alien. We will consider stories, novels, graphic novels, comics, films, music, and television clips.
fall, 2022 |
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166/1 |
Special Topics: Form and Invention in Native American Literature |
Piatote, Beth
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spring, 2022 |
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166/1 |
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166/2 |
Naiman, Eric
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summer, 2022 |
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166/1 |
Delehanty, Patrick
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166/2 |
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166/4 |
Ghosh, Srijani
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fall, 2021 |
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166/1 |
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166/2 |
Special Topics: Burn it Down/Build it Up: Protest, Dissent, and the Politics of Resistance |
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166/3 |
Special Topics: "Race, Social Class, Creative Writing, and Difference" |
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166/4 |
spring, 2021 |
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166/1 |
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166/3 |
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166/4 |
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166/5 |
Muza, Anna
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summer, 2021 |
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166/1 |
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166/2 |
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166/3 |
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166/4 |
Special Topics: Four Nobelists: Czeslaw Milosz, Derek Walcott, Toni Morrison, and Seamus Heaney |