01 MW6 CAC 12261 BROWN HH-B2 Black Avant-Gardism In this course we will read formally experimental novels and poems by writers of the African diaspora. We will consider how black writers have turned toward highly stylized, strange, and abstract literature to interrogate the relationships between modernity, blackness, gender, and sexuality. We will explore these relationships by asking: What is at stake in representing blackness in print cultures? How do we interpret race in highly abstract and...
