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ENGL 20806: Latin American Images of the United States

3.00 Credits

University of Notre Dame

Drawing upon a wide variety of sources - novels, essays, poems, travel literature, social science texts, film, art, etc.--a survey of Latin American views of North American society, customs, politics, and individual character, with a particular emphasis on United States interventionism.

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ENGL 20807: The Harlem Renaissance

3.00 Credits

University of Notre Dame

A study of the historical, cultural, and political circumstances that led to the flowering of African-American literature in the '20s and early '30s and the writers it fostered: Hughes, Hurston, Toomer, Redmon Fauset, Larson, and Thurman.

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ENGL 20808: Latino- and Latina-American Literature

3.00 Credits

University of Notre Dame

Studies of Latino and Latina authors, including Chicano, Caribbean, and South American.

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ENGL 20809: West Indian Poetry

3.00 Credits

University of Notre Dame

Poems from the many languages and cultures of the Caribbean region.

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ENGL 20811: Women in the Americas

3.00 Credits

University of Notre Dame

A survey of a wide variety of literature (fiction, poetry, testimonio, personal essay, autobiography, critical essay, and oral history) and film written by and about women in the Americas from the time of conquest/encounter to the present.

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ENGL 20813: Latino/a Poetry

3.00 Credits

University of Notre Dame

This course will focus on several prominent contemporary Latino poets whose work has enriched and diversified the canon of American poetry in the last 30 years. Among them are such established and acclaimed authors as Gary Soto, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Pat Mora, and Martín Espada. Because Latinos are not homogenous, emphasis will be given to these poets' diverse ethnic and cultural origins. In this regard, one important component of the course is the various ways that Latino poets respond to the spiritual and the sacred. Other topics to be discussed include social justice, the family, identity (in its multiple forms), and, of course, poetics. Readings will be assigned in individual poetry collections and in one anthology.

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ENGL 20814: Introduction to African-American Literature

3.00 Credits

University of Notre Dame

A survey of 300 years of African-American literature.

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ENGL 20815: Writing Harlem's Americas

3.00 Credits

University of Notre Dame

This course will serve as an introduction to writers of The Harlem Renaissance, with an emphasis on how black writers viewed "the black experience" in both within the black community and the larger American culture.

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ENGL 20818: Thinking Through Crisis: Reading 20th & 21st Century African American Literature and Cultural Theory

3.00 Credits

University of Notre Dame

What does it mean to be in a "crisis?" We live only a few years after a natural disaster ravaged the southern coast of the United States; we live only a few years after incidents of racial violence and judicial mishaps culminated in national protest; finally, these issues have been swallowed up by our worry over an economic breakdown that has been called a mere downturn by some, a recession by others, and even fewer have called it a depression. But none of these descriptions help us understand what we mean by "crisis" and what potential there is to think and act in such turbulent times. The same sorts of issues troubling our present also troubled Americans living in the Great Depression. African American writers of that period wrote novels, short stories, autobiographies, historiographies, poetry and other literary pieces that were both aesthetically rich and experiments in thinking critically about these issues. This course simply asks: How can Depression-era African American literature help us understand what it means to think during a crisis, and see the word as a concept, not just a media buzz word? Readings will include canonical authors like W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B Wells, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Carter G. Woodson, studied alongside artistic and theoretical responses to Hurricane Katrina, the Jena 6, and other recent events.

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ENGL 20819: "Black Arts": Figuring the African Diaspora

3.00 Credits

University of Notre Dame

This course offers a survey of black diasporic artistry. At the same time, it is an ongoing analysis of how these artists asked, "what constitutes the African diaspora" in divergent and convergent ways. The main goal of the course is not simply to label certain artists as part of this diasporic formation, but to understand how artists reflected upon their participation in it (and, in some ways, outside of it). We will focus primarily on this conversation's development from the Interwar period of the twentieth-century to the turn of the twenty-first century through poetry, prose fiction and nonfiction, film, television, and dance. From the United States, we will look at how creative intellectuals like the poet Langston Hughes, dancer and anthropologist Katherine Dunham, novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, fiction writer and essayist Richard Wright, and journalist Alex Haley used art to understand their relationship to black peoples in the Caribbean, Europe, and Africa, along with key events impacting those different geographies. But the course will also consider how black creative intellectuals outside the United States reflected on their relationship to the diaspora. These will include Algerian philosopher Frantz Fanon, Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén, Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, and Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Derek Walcott. In exploring different conceptions of diaspora, we will encounter other themes including the idea of overlapping diasporas, black nationalism, the body, and the significance of translation to cultural solidarity and difference.

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