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Negativity in Black Critical Thought
ENGL 376
Spring 2025
Section: 01  
Crosslisting: AFAM 372

Lack, nothingness, negation, the void, the abyssal, absence, wretchedness these and other corollary terms are omnipresent grammars within Black critical thought's attempts to explicate the singularity of Blackness. Conversant with philosophical genealogies of pessimism, nihilism, and negativity, this course will examine various theorizations of the relationship between Blackness and the negative. Rather than framing negativity as essentially apolitical or unproductive, this course will consider what a fidelity to the negative portends for questions of Black politics, Black theorizing, and revolutionary action. In so doing we will pay particular attention to questions of affect, gender, sexuality, aesthetics, and psycho-politics.
Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ENGL
Course Format: SeminarGrading Mode: Graded
Level: UGRD Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a Requirement for: (CSCT)
Past Enrollment Probability: 50% - 74%

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