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Advanced Seminar
SoSe 18: Race and American Literature
Thomas Dikant
Comments
Race is an inescapable fact of American life. With the rise of social movements like Black Lives Matter and the revival of white supremacy, the idea of a post-racial America has shown itself to be nothing but a short-lived dream. In this seminar, we will cast a light on the present moment of race relations in the U.S. through an engagement with its history in American literature. We will study how African- and European-American writers such as Phyllis Wheatley, Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Charles Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, W. E. B. Du Bois, William Faulkner, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison engage with the question of race from the founding of the nation to the present moment. close
13 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Tue, 2018-04-17 18:00 - 20:00
Tue, 2018-04-24 18:00 - 20:00
Tue, 2018-05-08 18:00 - 20:00
Tue, 2018-05-15 18:00 - 20:00
Tue, 2018-05-22 18:00 - 20:00
Tue, 2018-05-29 18:00 - 20:00
Tue, 2018-06-05 18:00 - 20:00
Tue, 2018-06-12 18:00 - 20:00
Tue, 2018-06-19 18:00 - 20:00
Tue, 2018-06-26 18:00 - 20:00
Tue, 2018-07-03 18:00 - 20:00
Tue, 2018-07-10 18:00 - 20:00
Tue, 2018-07-17 18:00 - 20:00