ENGL 6745

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ENGL 6745
Black Diaspora Meets Black Queer Theory

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This seminar will introduce graduate students to the cutting edge scholarship situated in the crossroads of black diaspora theory and black queer theory. Glissant's Poetics of Relation will be our starting point. The overlap between his theory of relation and Dionne Brand's approach to belonging and unbelonging in A Map to the Door of No Return will set this seminar in motion. Our next moves will be Nadia Ellis' Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora, Samantha Pinto's Difficult Diasporas, Dionne Brand's In Another Place, Not Here, Hortense Spillers' "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe," Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy,  Alice Walker's By the Light of My Father's Smile, and more.

When Offered Spring.

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16267 ENGL 6745   SEM 101

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