ENGL 6491

Radical Global Blackness Looking Back at our Present Times through Literature

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In this course we shall look at the ways black people across countries and continents developed networks of resistance, the promises and contradictions and what that means for our world today. Using thinkers and writers such as Richard Wright, Maya Angelou, Nicolás Guillén, Frantz Fanon, Assata Shakur, Shirley DuBois, Edouard Glissant, we shall map out the ways in which black people (very broadly defined) and their allies (also broadly defined) challenged and changed the meaning of freedom. Key themes will be intersectional versus interconnectedness, creolization versus hybridity, black consciousness vs black power. We shall look at BLM in the US and BLM in South Africa and Nigeria as way to use those networks of resistance to speak to our times.

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