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LIT 135H - 01   African Futurisms

2020 Summer Quarter

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Career
Undergraduate
Grading
Student Option
Class Number
70989
Type
Lecture
Instruction Mode
In Person
Credits
5 units
General Education
ER
Status
Open
Available Seats
16
Enrollment Capacity
50
Enrolled
34
Wait List Capacity
0
Wait List Total
0

Description

Explores expressions of African futurism in a range of creative media--novels, short stories, and films--and analyzes them in conversation with theoretical texts. Recognizes African cultural producers and theorists as central to conversations about anti-colonialism, revolution, futurity, and the nonhuman and beyond human. Critical approach designations: Geographies, Power and Subjectivities. Distribution requirement: Global.

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Days & Times Room Instructor Meeting Dates
MW 01:00PM-04:30PM McFaul,K.A. 07/27/20 - 08/28/20
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