ENG 379 BLACK POETICS

How does one evoke a black world? What does it look like? Sound like? Taste like? This course considers these matters of black poetics – the formal practices that black thinkers use to represent U.S. and Caribbean black lives and experiences. While we anchor our investigations in poetry, we invite a broad conception of poetics that also examines the rhetoric, ethics, and aesthetics that thinkers use to (re)present a black world in oratory, music, and visual experimentation. Works from McKay, Dove, Rankine, Hayes, Jess, Mendi+Keith Obadike, and Shockley.

Credits

4

Cross Listed Courses

This is the same course as AFR 379/ AMS 379.

Prerequisite

ENG 250 is strongly recommended.

Enrollment Limit

Enrollment limited to 18 students.

Attributes

MOIB, MOIE, W