LW341 Writers of the Black Atlantic 3CR

This class offers a cross-cultural survey of black literature in the 20th-Century. It explores the ways black writers from Africa, Europe, and the Americas share a globalized perspective that is not distinctly African, European, or American but rather a multicultural perspective that historian Paul Gilroy has called the culture of the Black Atlantic. Based on the history of transatlantic crossings of the slave trade and its aftermath, this Black Atlantic is a confluence of diverse cultural traditions. Covering topics such as slavery, racism, and colonialism, this class focuses on the ways writers of the Black Atlantic have used this multicultural perspective to establish a critical voice for expressing the black experience in the 20th-Century.

Prerequisites: LW-200

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