Race and Place in Early American Writing
ENGL 275
Spring 2019 not offered
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| Crosslisting:
AFAM 275 |
This semester, we will examine early American texts that are preoccupied with the intersection between the unsettled (and often unsettling) categories of race and place. In the wake of colonial contact and in the midst of chattel slavery, people in varying positions of power and subjection took to the pen in order to reify or resist white supremacy and its attendant discursive and physical violence and violation. With an eye toward the strategic uses of memory and witnessing by those who were displaced and/or enslaved, we will read primary texts from the 17th to the mid-19th century that were written by people of color. To conceptualize race and nation is to think relationally, so we will also take up texts about people of color, which are often animated by the seductive effects of nostalgia and sentimentality. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: (ENGL-Literature) |
Major Readings:
Octavia Butler, WILD SEED
Jupiter Hammon, SELECTED POEMS
Briton Hammon, NARRATIVE OF THE UNCOMMON SUFFERINGS, AND SURPRIZING DELIVERANCE OF BRITON HAMMON
Lawrence Hill, SOMEONE KNOWS MY NAME
Pauline Hopkins, CONTENDING FORCES
John Marrant, A NARRATIVE OF THE LORD'S WONDERFUL DEALINGS WITH JOHN MARRANT
Marilyn Nelson, FORTUNE'S BONES
Marilyn Nelson, THE FREEDOM BUSINESS: INCLUDING A NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF VENTURE, A NATIVE OF AFRICA
Samuel Sewall, THE SELLLING OF JOSEPH
Venture Smith, A NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF VENTURE, A NATIVE OF AFRICA
Maria Stewart, ESSAYS
Phillis Wheatley, COLLECTED POEMS AND LETTERS
Harriet Wilson, OUR NIG
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Examinations and Assignments:
Weekly Reading Responses, two 5-7 page essays, and 1 10-15 final paper |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course fulfills the Literary 2 and Literatures of Difference requirement and contributes to the American Literature and Race & Ethnicity concentrations of the English major. |
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