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Advent Semester—2025
Jun 21, 2025 |
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| ENGL 387 - Spill the Tea: Black Politics of Storytelling and Secret Keeping |
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The course examines perceptions of truth, history, and humanity by looking at official historical records alongside narrative such as gossip, secrets, and hearsay. This comparative study will open challenging conversations about authoritative history and power by surveying the slave and neo-slave genres alongside the critical texts of scholars such as Zora Neale Hurston and Saidiya Hartman. In doing so, students will develop an ethic of engaging difficult histories and violent transatlantic archives. By surveying the shaping of narrative from the 19th to the 21st century, students will tune their ears to hear the silences of Black stories and the erasures of master narratives.
4.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Final Examination, Lecture/Seminar Humanities, Non-Languages Division English Department Course Attributes: African American Track, G7, GMWI |
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