{"id":1262,"date":"2021-05-25T15:26:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T22:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/devuwcps\/course\/engl-556-a-cultural-studies-2\/"},"modified":"2021-11-03T17:04:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T00:04:11","slug":"engl-556-a-cultural-studies-2","status":"publish","type":"course","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/course\/engl-556-a-cultural-studies-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ENGL 556 A: Cultural Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Black Radicalism, Anti-Colonialism, Marxism, and Communism: literary and critical studies<br \/>\nInstructor:\u00a0 Laura Chrisman<br \/>\nThis course explores the complex interactions of anti-colonial, communist, and Black radical political cultures across the long 20th century. Drawing upon the resources of Marxist and postcolonial studies, this course fuses literary criticism, archival enquiry and critical theory. Under consideration are writers and movements from Europe, continental Africa, the Caribbean, and North America.<br \/>\nKeywords: postcolonial studies; theories of colonialism\/anti-colonial nationalism\/postcoloniality; Marxism; African studies; socialism; communism; black radicalism; global literatures (1900s-present); postcolonial literatures; Caribbean political culture; African political culture; black diasporic political culture.<br \/>\nList of Books &amp; Readings:<br \/>\nLangston Hughes, selections from The Ways of White Folks [1934] and poetry (1920s-1930s)<br \/>\nRichard Wright, selections from Uncle Tom\u2019s Children [1938]<br \/>\nCLR James, Toussaint Louverture: the story of the only successful slave revolt in history [1934]<br \/>\nAime Cesaire, Discourse on Colonialism [1950]<br \/>\nAlice Childress, Gold Through the Trees [1952], in Selected Plays<br \/>\nLorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun [1958]<br \/>\nSembene Ousmane, God\u2019s Bits of Wood [1960]<br \/>\nFrantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth [1963], trans. Philcox<br \/>\nAlex la Guma, A Walk in the Night [1962]<br \/>\nDionne Brand, Inventory [2006]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[47],"class_list":["post-1262","course","type-course","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive-courses"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 03:54:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/course\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/course"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/course"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}