Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0266 - Narratives of Diaspora

An exploration of the "African-New World Diaspora" through critical and creative texts-written and visual "narratives"-some fictional, some factual, some theoretical. Inquiries include: What is this thing called the "African Diaspora?" What does it name? What are its meanings? What can these meanings make us see, hear, remember, imagine, theorize , translate, try to transform? What does the "African diaspora" offer as intellectual category, as encounter, endeavor, future promise? How are "diasporicities" produced, practiced and experienced? These questions exceed purely racial and cultural phenomena or ties to singular geographical regions, and expose dynamic links between and among seemingly disconnected yet interrelated global populations affiliated by diverse yet conversant histories and migrations. Authors of fictional and critical-theoretical works pertaining to diaspora may include Frederick Douglass, Henry Box Brown, Martin Delany, Lawrence Hill, Saidiya Hartman, Edward Ball, Andrea Levy, Michael White, Michelle Cliff, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Andrea Stuart, James Clifford, Robin Kelley, Julie Dash, Katrina Browne. Requirements: presentations, research-papers, independent projects, attendance.

Culture, Humanities, and Languages Multiple Cultural Perspectives Writing and Research