LIT-202 Afrofuturism and Other Dark Matters

An introductory course primarily engaging the literary and other works of writers and artists concerned with the use of multiple genres and media to critique present-day realities and received partial histories of New World and global life through an Afro-diasporic lens. Emphasis will highlight the transdisciplinarity of these works. Students will read and examine the works of such writers and artists as Sutton Griggs, W. E. B. DuBois, Samuel R Delany, Octavia Butler, Tananarive Due, Vincent D. Smith, Sun Ra, Nalo Hopkinson, Jimi Hendrix, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Janelle Monae.

Maximum Enrollment

Writing-Intensive (18)

(Writing Intensive, Social Structural and Institutional Hierarchies.)

Credits

1

Cross Listed Courses

AFRST-202

Notes

(Intermedia and SSIH)