32203
Advanced Seminar
WiSe 20/21: Racial Conflicts and Academia: Campus Novels in African American Literature,
Francesco Bacci
Information for students
Synchronous online teaching with some on-campus sessions (optional).
Comments
In the investigation of the history of the Black academic experience, African American campus
novels, written by Alice Walker, Paul Beatty, Gil Scott Heron, Elizabeth Nunez, and various
others, constitute a self-reflexion medium that comments upon American race relations.
The first part of this course includes the analysis of theoretical studies concerning African
American literature, the literary genre, and Black studies. We will start with a brief overview of
the history of the changes happening in US colleges throughout the last decades of the
twentieth century.
Racism, discrimination, protests, relations, and individualism are central in these narratives, and
the stories will be discussed in a broader literary, historical and sociological perspective.
We will then use theories in dialogue with readings of parts of my archive's main novels to
familiarize with the primary texts and create a discussion on specific aspects and questions. All
course materials will be distributed via Blackboard. close
15 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Fri, 2020-11-06 08:00 - 10:00
Fri, 2020-11-13 08:00 - 10:00
Fri, 2020-11-20 08:00 - 10:00
Fri, 2020-11-27 08:00 - 10:00
Fri, 2020-12-04 08:00 - 10:00
Fri, 2020-12-11 08:00 - 10:00
Fri, 2020-12-18 08:00 - 10:00
Fri, 2021-01-08 08:00 - 10:00
Fri, 2021-01-15 08:00 - 10:00
Fri, 2021-01-22 08:00 - 10:00
Fri, 2021-01-29 08:00 - 10:00
Fri, 2021-02-05 08:00 - 10:00
Fri, 2021-02-12 08:00 - 10:00
Fri, 2021-02-19 08:00 - 10:00
Fri, 2021-02-26 08:00 - 10:00