BLST 061B. Classic Black Autobiography

Cross-listed with ENGL 061B.
A survey of twentieth-century Black autobiography, emphasizing the significance of the autobiography as an act of representation, not simply a document of experience. What strategies do Black narrators like Du Bois, Wright, Hurston, Dunham, Baldwin, Lorde, and Malcolm X employ to represent themselves, and how? How do their textual strategies and contextual concerns change from the Jim Crow regime into the post-Civil Rights era?
Humanities.
Writing course.
1 credit.
Spring 2027. Foy.
Catalog chapter: Black Studies
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/black-studies-program

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