First Year Seminar 191HFA39 - FYS-Africanfuturism & Afrospec

This course focuses on past and contemporary Africanfuturism and Afro-Speculative fiction. While our focus is on literature and film we will also look at the historical, cultural, social, and political contexts out of which these African and Afro-American creators write. As a first year seminar course, we will develop discussion-based skills and argumentative essay form to explore how contemporary and historic writers interrogate the past and imagine the future. We will read examples of the following sub-genres: alternate history, horror, dystopian, and magical realism.

First-year (R1ST)