Race and Literature

Catalog description

This course addresses race and ethnicity in literature, focusing on writers from various racial and ethnic backgrounds. The course may focus on comparative literatures, diasporic literatures, colonial and postcolonial literatures, or on specific nations or regions. It may include writers from Asian/Pacific, Caribbean, African, Middle Eastern, Indigenous/First Nations, or Latinx origins in examining the sociopolitical and historical contexts of their works. It may also feature a variety of genres, including poetry, fiction, nonfiction prose, and drama in investigating race in literature.