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Apr 23, 2024
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College Bulletin 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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ENGL 062. Classic Black Autobiography 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? 20th/21st c. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for BLST. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature
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