The Revolutionary Poetics of the Black Diaspora

Description

Among the aims of this course, and corresponding to the mission of Africana Studies, is to provide an understanding and appreciation of cultural transactions and movements centered on a poetics of Black aliveness and being. Secondly, the course will introduce the relationship of poetics to political and cultural movements. Exploring the Harlem Renaissance, Négritude, and the Blacks Arts Movement not only as aesthetic movements, but anti-colonial and emancipatory movements. Explores new structures of affective language, of re-encountering the Black archive, and world-making. Readings include works by Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Leopold Sédar Senghor, Aimé Cesaire, Kamau Braithwaite, Derek Walcott, Audre Lorde, Edouard Glissant, Claudia Rankine, NourbeSe Philip, and Will Alexander. (McCorkle, offered alternate years relative to AFS 211)