2023-2024 Academic Catalog 
    
    May 29, 2024  
2023-2024 Academic Catalog

ENG 394 - African American Literary and Critical Race Theory


Utilizing the theoretical approaches found in African American literary criticism of the 20th and 21st century, this course will evaluate the complex relationship of racial thought in African American literary theory. Creating an understanding of the relationship of literature to the larger experience of African Americans, students will analyze the dialogue of racial identity, Black feminist/womanist thought, Poststructuralism, queer theory, intersectionality, cultural studies, essentialism, and critical race theory from the 1920s to today.

Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually