ENGL 40757 - Autobiography and the National Narrative

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

English

Description:

This course will explore 20th-century African American autobiography in order to consider how personal narratives of freedom, struggle and development engage with dominant narratives of success and individualism. What is the relationship between individual and collective memories? If narrative is the way we come to understand the world we live in, how do Ida Wells, Richard Wright, Claude Brown, Malcolm X, Charlayne Hunter Gault, Maya Angelou and others represent African American experience and complicate the site of memory? This course will entail archival research.

Credits:

3.00

Credit Hours:

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Additional Information:

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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