Course Catalog - 2024-2025

     

ENGL 398 - SLAVERY IN FILM & FICTION

Long Title: SLAVERY IN 20TH AND 21ST CENTURY FILM AND FICTION
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Undergraduate Professional
Visiting Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Description: This course studies how twentieth and twenty-first century reconstructions of slavery in American literature and film engage contemporary anxieties regarding race, gender, sexuality, and national identity. These neo-slave narratives often critique modernity; challenge how we think about history, evidence, memory, and trauma; and trouble narrative conventions.