African American Autobiography

Yale Summer Session

HumanitiesHistorySocial Justice

New Haven, CT

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May 29 - Jun 30

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In-person Course. Examination of African American autobiography, from slave narratives to contemporary memoirs, and how the genre approaches the project (and problem) of knowing, through reading, the relationships of fellow humans. Chronological consideration of a range of narratives and their representations of race, of space, of migration, of violence, of self, and of other, as well as the historical circumstances that inform these representations.

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