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Course Code etc
Academic Year 2023
College Graduate School of Arts
Course Code JB169
Theme・Subtitle 黒人文学・資本主義・解放
Class Format Face to face (all classes are face-to-face)
Class Format (Supplementary Items)
Campus
Campus Ikebukuro
Semester Spring Semester
DayPeriod・Room Mon.5・9204
Credit 2
Course Number EAL6313
Language Others
Class Registration Method Course Code Registration
Grade (Year) Required 配当年次は開講学部のR Guideに掲載している科目表で確認してください。
prerequisite regulations
Acceptance of Other Colleges
course cancellation
Online Classes Subject to 60-Credit Upper Limit
Relationship with Degree Policy
Notes 後期課程用科目コード:PB333
Text Code JB169

【Course Objectives】

This seminar reads three important African American novels published in a long period of time over the Civil War era, the Jim Crow era, and the post-Civil Rights era. In so doing, we will critically examine the notions of "racial capitalism" and the "long emancipation."

【Course Contents】

The economic institution of racial slavery in the South is believed to have ended in 1865. However, without waiting for the recent assertion of the Black Lives Matter movement, such inquiries as "Was slavery really the Southern 'peculiar institution'?" and "Did the abolition of slavery really liberate black slaves from their enslavement?" have already constituted questions in various narratives and representations of African American literature having been published in the past 160 years. On the other hand, in the fields of economics, sociology, and history, there have been ongoing attempts to substantiate the related facts regarding unfinished liberation with concepts including "racial capitalism" and "long emancipation."
  This class aims to revisit what has already become the common literary theme in the body of literature and to decipher the experiences that cannot be easily conceptualized or eliminated by a simple desire for justice. The three texts--Our Nig (1859), Black No More (1930), Kindred (1979)--are selected from a long chronological span. We will attempt to examine each work's unique socio-historical sensibility and the nebulous nature of the issues they imply. Through the course, students are required to write a high-quality research paper on the assigned texts and submit them to an appropriate journal.

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