SoSe 24: Authorship and Race in American Culture
Hannah Spahn
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Cord Jefferson's award-winning American Fiction (2023), the film adaptation of Percival Everett's novel Erasure (2001), reflects on a long-standing debate in American culture on the relationship between authorship and race. In this seminar, we will use Jefferson's film and Everett's novel as an entry into the complex cultural and intellectual history of this debate from the Enlightenment to today, with a thematic emphasis on three periods: the first African American Renaissance in the 1850s, the years from the late nineteenth century to the Harlem Renaissance, and the mid-twentieth century. Authors will include Frederick Douglass, William Wilson, Frances Harper, Charles Chesnutt, W.E.B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Alain Locke, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and James Baldwin, among others.
Please purchase: Percival Everett, Erasure (2001/2021).
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Thu, 2024-04-25 16:00 - 18:00 Thu, 2024-07-11 16:00 - 18:00 Thu, 2024-07-18 16:00 - 18:00Regular appointments