ENG 453 - Slave Narrative to Slave Novel

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Furman University

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GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Traditional Black Atlantic eighteenth-and nineteenthcentury slave narratives and examples from the twentiethcentury "slave novel" or "neo-slave narrative," taking into consideration the generic issues raised by the slave novel's reinvention of the traditional slave narrative. Texts engage questions in critique of historiographies, ideologies, and models of interpretation; the relation between memory, writing, and historical representation; and the reproduction of hierarchical categories in the construction of racial, sexual, and gender differences. Texts include Douglass, Equiano, Prince, Jacobs, Bradley, Morrison, G. Jones, E. Jones, and Caryl Phillips. May satisfy the general education requirement in upper-level humanities. 4 credits.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.furman.edu

Phone Number:

(864) 294-2000

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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