ENG-453 Slave Narrative to Slave Novel

GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts)
Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar
Traditional Black Atlantic eighteenth-and nineteenth-century slave narratives and examples from the twentieth-century “slave novel” or “neo-slave narrative,” considering the generic issues raised by the slave novel’s reinvention of the traditional slave narrative. Texts engage questions in critique of historiographies, ideologies, and models of interpretation; the relation between memory, writing, and historical representation; and the reproduction of hierarchical categories in the construction of racial, sexual, and gender differences. Authors might include Douglass, Equiano, Jacobs, Johnson, Morrison, Phillips, Keckley, and Butler. 4 credits.