ENGLISH 9117B ~ Circulation and the Form of the Neo-Slave Narrative
Professor Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi
Winter Half Course.Long considered a quintessentially African American genre, the neo-slave narrative, the historical novel of American chattel slavery, now circulates as a genre for representing cultural debris of circum-Atlantic slave plantation economies. In this seminar, we will examine the ways in which the neo-slave narrative has been retooled to address the interconnections of everyday living with histories of displacement and dispossession. We will read six novels from a mix of American, British and Caribbean writers. Our discussions will draw upon theoretical readings from Marxian and feminist vantage points as well emerging work from intimacy studies.
View the course syllabus here: English 9117B.
