BA Seminar: African American Literature and Culture

B.Sc. seminars
obligatory courses

The seminar will focus primarily in African American literature and culture. Other topics will need to be cleared with me (please contact me before registering; my main field right now is queer studies—I can imagine organizing a group with an alternative queer focus).

The seminar will focus primarily in African American literature and culture. Other topics will need to be cleared with me (please contact me before registering; my main field right now is queer studies—I can imagine organizing a group with an alternative queer focus).

The provisional reading list:

WEB DuBois Reconstruction in America (rel capitalism and continued black death)

Franz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (eg.51-74, 107)

James Baldwin, “Stranger in the Village”

Audre Lorde, from Sister Outsider

Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark

Robyn Wiegman, from American Anatomies

Saidyia Hartman, from Lose Your Mother

Ability to brainstorm, to find and refine a manageable topic. Ability to critically comment on another student’s writing and revise one’s own. Ability to find a thesis (and revise it if necessary) and to make an outline.

Students will learn to work in a group, give each other feedback and use each other’s support in the process of writing. They will learn to plan and manage their time.

To pass the student needs to submit the BA paper for review.