Course Introduction:
Goals and Outcomes
This course
will examine the slave narrative and other genres (gothic fiction,
autobiography, and domestic fiction) that have contributed to its making. By
studying the influences on the slave narrative and the slave narrative itself,
we will be able to see the development of anxieties as they relate to the
representations of Black bodies. Furthermore, in this course, we will see how, although
slave narratives contain shared characteristics and tropes, there are gendered
differences in the ways Black bodies are represented.
Course
Objectives
- Teacher: Alma Alvarez