ENGL 90750 - Worldwide Underground: Black Writers and the Post-National Constellation

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

English

Description:

By reading writers from the larger hemisphere of the Americas, this graduate seminar seeks to rethink the relationship between transnational subjectivities, globalization, and modern social formation as they are represented in literature. Rather than accepting America as a synonym for the United States, this course approaches "America" as a dynamic contact zone, as the embodiment of the overlapping interstices of cultures that the political designation of the nation too easily belies. Topics of consideration will include the global South, sexuality and nationality as liminal categories of being, cultural forms of hybridity and syncretism within diasporic systems, and the social meanings and possibilities of the current geo-political moment. Writers may include Dionne Brand and Lawrence Hill from Canada, Claude McKay from Jamaica, Edwidge Danticat from Haiti, and W.E.B. DuBois and Langston Hughes from the U.S., among others.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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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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