ENGL 6811

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ENGL 6811
James Baldwin

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James Baldwin is one of the most incisive interpreters of the English language and of American life. In this course, we will pay careful attention to Baldwin's essays and novels, and how his style in each form changes over the course of his illustrious career. We will consider Baldwin's work against a variegated historical context and how his work pries open America's literary, cultural, and political imagination. Also, we will supplement primary texts with shorter pieces by his contemporaries and new critical essays in black queer studies that re-conceptualize Baldwin's enterprise. The themes of the course will include: the intersection of race and sexuality; the forms of intimacy and kinship; the politics of love; and, the role of the artist/intellectual.

When Offered Fall.

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 6811, LGBT 6811

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16525 ENGL 6811   SEM 101

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