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Class number:
2715
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Title: Crossing the Color-Line |
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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: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 15 |
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Current enrollment: 13 |
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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: TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM, LIB - 181 |
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Instructor(s): Brown, David |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement |
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Note: For majors enrolled before December 2023, this course fulfills the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1700. For majors enrolled after January 2024, this course fulfills the pre-1800 requirement and the UVSJ requirement or may be an elective/additional literature or film course. |
Course Description:
This is a course in Early modern English drama and African-American literature. The plays and prose pieces produced during these disparate literary periods share many thematic-and some conventional-points of contact that are often overlooked and consequently not fully explored. Both early modern English and African-American authors addressed several critical issues such as miscegenation, power (political, parental, social), class, sexuality, lineage, death, identity, passing, homosexuality/homosociality and race. These common preoccupations will enable our productive crossing of various boundaries, most notably, the historical boundary between the texts. Authors will likely include W. E. B. Du Bois, Suzan-Lori Parks, William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, James Baldwin, Nella Larsen and Harriet Jacobs. Format: discussion; mini-lectures; in-class presentations; and writing assignments. |