Legacy Course Catalog
ENGL 678C - Neo-Slave Narratives
| Effectivity: | 01/07/2008 - 05/03/2008 @ Purdue West Lafayette Traditional |
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| Credits: | 3 |
| Instructional Types: | Lec |
| Usually Offered: | spr |
| Short Title: | Neo-Slave Narratives |
| Description: | This course will address contemporary narratives of slavery, including neo-slave narratives, which "assume the form, adopt the conventions, and take on the first-person voice of the ante-bellum slave narrative" and palimpsest narratives, "in which a contemporary African American subject describes modern social relations that are directly conditioned or affected by an incident, event, or narrative from the time of slavery." Students should be familiar with the slave narrative genre and have read Frederick Douglass' and/or Harriet Jacobs' slave narrative. African American narratives of slavery might take the form of historical novel: Arna Bontemps's Black Thunder (1936), Walker's Jubilee (1966), and Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987); the pseudo-autobiographical slave narrative: Ernest Gaines' The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971), Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada (1976), Charles Johnson's Oxherding Tale (1982) Sherley Anne Williams' Dessa Rose (1986) and Charles Johnson's Middle Passage (1990); and the novel of remembered generations: Gayl Jones' Corregidora (1975), Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979), David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident (1981), J. California Cooper's Family (1992), and Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata (1998). In addition to the aforementioned novels, we will read critical texts regarding neo-slave narratives and palimpsest narratives. |
| School: | College Of Liberal Arts |
| Department: | English |
| Credit By Exam: | NO |
| Repeatable Flag: | YES |
| Temporary Flag: | YES |
| Full Time Privilege Flag: | NO |
| Honors Flag: | NO |
| Variable Title Flag: | NO |
Fall 2007 *** indicates the course was still an active course and was transferred to the Banner Catalog effective Spring 2008. This course was not expired Fall 2007.
