Giving Day Highlight: CL200
CL200, taught in fall 2021 by Professors Uden and Čulík-Baird, will trace the history of adaptations and allusions to antiquity in Black writers from the 18th century to today, in a wide range of genres: poetry, essays, travel writing, novels, drama, and film.
African American writers from Phyllis Wheatley to Rita Dove have explored, challenged, and reworked the literature of Greece and Rome. They have transformed the Classics into both a vehicle for personal expression and an object of critique. Historically, Black Classicism has been a mode of reinvention and critique. CL200 will study the ways in which authors have used the resources of the literary past to articulate their own perspective on injustices in their own lives, and have transformed antiquity in the process.
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