Africana Studies 202 - TOPCS: BLACK LIT & URBAN EXPER
Fall
2019
02
4.00
Daphne Lamothe
MW 01:20-02:35
Smith College
10805-F19
BASS 211
dlamothe@smith.edu
Topics course: This course begins with the presumption that studying "blackness" entails the pursuit of questions of space, place and belonging. Students will engage primarily literary, and also visual and musical, texts that explore the complexities
of city life and urban relations. The intersectional analysis of race, gender, class, and sexuality will inform discussions of black representational texts; which will also be placed in conversation with their historical and social contexts. Through the study of literary figurations of the city, we will explore blackness as an idiom of place, and the city as a site of belonging, abjection and freedom dreams. (E)
of city life and urban relations. The intersectional analysis of race, gender, class, and sexuality will inform discussions of black representational texts; which will also be placed in conversation with their historical and social contexts. Through the study of literary figurations of the city, we will explore blackness as an idiom of place, and the city as a site of belonging, abjection and freedom dreams. (E)