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Class number:
2896
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Title: Toni Morrison's BELOVED |
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Department: English |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: Yes |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 5 |
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Current enrollment: 3 |
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Available seats: 2 |
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Start date: Tuesday, January 21, 2025 |
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End date: Friday, May 9, 2025 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: W: 6:30PM-9:00PM, 115V - 106 |
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Instructor(s): Paulin, Diana |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement |
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Note: Permission required for sophomores and first-years. |
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Note: For majors enrolled before December 2023, this course fulfills the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written post 1900. For majors enrolled after January 2024, this course fulfills the post 1800 requirement and the UVSJ requirement or may be an elective/additional literature or film course. |
Course Description:
This seminar interrogates the text and contexts of Toni Morrison's powerful and challenging novel, Beloved, bringing historical, theoretical, and cultural analysis to bear on a single work of fiction. We will consider how Morrison crafted a story about the horrors of slavery, as well as the value of excavating stories deemed unspeakable or illegible. This course surveys critical responses to Morrison's work and considers how contemporary theories of racial formation and embodied blackness inform the novel. We will also address the novel's representation of themes that speak to Black racial formations not only in the wake of slavery, but also in the context of contemporary topics such as migration, trauma and healing, neurodiversity, radical self-love, and Afro-environmentalism. |