Fall 2021 - ENGL 210 D100
Reading and Writing Identities (3)
Class Number: 6333
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Sep 8 – Dec 7, 2021: Wed, Fri, 12:30–1:20 p.m.
Burnaby -
Exam Times + Location:
Dec 10, 2021
Fri, 3:30–6:30 p.m.
Burnaby
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Instructor:
Jon Smith
jon_smith@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 6117
Office Hours: WF 1:25-2:25
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Prerequisites:
12 units or one 100 division English course.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
Considers how identity - construed psychologically, culturally, or socially - is performed and interrogated through literature and language. May be further organized by historical period, genre, or critical approach. Breadth-Humanities.
COURSE DETAILS:
NOTE: Students who took the Fall 2021 version of ENGL 349 are encouraged NOT to take this section of ENGL 210 for credit.
Faced with yet another period of staggering racist backlash, over the past decade African American writers have forged what is widely considered the most inspiring and formally innovative body of literature in contemporary North America. However, just as the racial situation that has helped spur that work is the result of more than four centuries of North American, European, and African history, the present literary moment grows from a literary history nearly as complex. We’ll put it in that literary-historical context, with special attention to the emerging African American critical concepts of “black patience,” “black time,” and “plantation modernity,” along with attendant attention to (among other dominant and emergent critical terms) Afrofuturism, Afrosurrealism, a “blues epistemology,” and other generic and critical constructs, to understand where we are and how we got here. We’ll also ask some basic but difficult questions: what is, or was, African American literature? How variously does such literature position itself in regional, national, and diasporic contexts? Who’s the audience? How much of one’s poetic, novelistic, or essayistic voice does one decide to bring from Black culture, how much from other wellsprings?
Grading
- First paper )3-4pp) 20%
- Poem presentation 15%
- Second paper (5-6pp) 25%
- Tutorial 15%
- Final Exam 25%
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
Ta-nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
ISBN: 978-1925240702
Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing
ISBN: 978-1501126079
Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
ISBN: 978-1555976903
Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin
ISBN: 978-0143133186
Department Undergraduate Notes:
IMPORTANT NOTE Re 300 and 400 level courses: 75% of spaces in 300 level English courses, and 100% of spaces in 400 level English courses, are reserved for declared English Major, Minor, Extended Minor, Joint Major, and Honours students only, until open enrollment begins.
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Registrar Notes:
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TEACHING AT SFU IN FALL 2021
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