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ENGL 200 B: Reading Literary Forms

Race and Media: Image, Text, Sound

Meeting Time: 
MTWTh 10:30am - 11:20am
Location: 
SIG 227
SLN: 
13894

Additional Details:

“Race and Media: Image, Text, Sound” explores the ways in which “race” is defined in diverse textual forms and media. The course will investigate race in 20th and 21st century print, visual, and sound cultures. We will examine how meanings of race in each course text-- and knowledge about race in general-- are shaped by the forms, genres, and media of expression. The primary texts of the course may include Langston Hughes short stories, Ralph Ellison Invisible Man, Octavia Butler Fledgling, Sayeeda Clarke White, Karen Shephard The Celestials, Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly, Claudia Rankine Citizen: An American Lyric, and the “Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic” exhibition at the Seattle Asian Art Museum. Secondary texts include criticism on the primary texts as well as theories of race and media in general, including essays by Cornel West, bell hooks, Kobena Mercer, Shawn Michelle Smith, and Jacqueline Goldsby. Broadly, this course will help us understand how the literary and visual arts provide special insights into the relationships among media, history, and race.

Catalog Description: 
Covers techniques and practice in reading and enjoying literature in its various forms: poetry, drama, prose fiction, and film. Examines such features of literary meanings as imagery, characterization, narration, and patterning in sound and sense. Offered: AWSp.
GE Requirements: 
Arts and Humanities (A&H)
Writing (W)
Status: 
Active
Last updated: 
October 5, 2016 - 9:14pm
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