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Twenty-First Century African American Literature

ENGL 281.401
also offered as: AFRC 281
instructor(s):
TR 3-4:30pm

Course Online: Synchronous Format

What is African American literature now? This course will uncover the styles and themes that are defining the first decades of twenty-first century African American literature. Our focus will be the new literary voices that have emerged in the twenty-first century and, also, writers whose twenty-first century art is the late stage of their larger literary flow. Twenty-first century African American literature extends a long tradition of African American literature and, also, breaks this tradition as it creates new space for satire, heightened experimentation, and less legible images of class, gender, race, and sexuality. Our list of authors may include Toni Morrison, Danzy Senna, Jesmyn Ward, Lynn Nottage, Colson Whitehead, Percival Everett, Octavia Butler, Claudia Rankine, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Alice Walker, and Tayari Jones.

fulfills requirements
Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major