Instr: Clark, Rikki
Office: CRT 502; 229-3302
e-mail: rikki@uwm.edu
Office hours: TBA
Course Information: TR; 2:00pm - 3:15pm; CRT 321
In this sophomore-level course students will examine the enduring genre of the slave narrative. We will discuss the importance of slave narratives to the abolition movement and see how they were a product of their times. We will also discuss the social, political, and cultural reasons for neo-slave narratives. In this course we will read works by both African-American and Caucasian authors. The required texts for the class are Oroonoko, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Middle Passage, Beloved, Kindred, and Flash for Freedom.
