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Race, Sound, African American Literature

This seminar focuses on the relationship between Sound Studies and African American literature. Sound Studies methodologies provide a way to chip away at privileged discourses of knowledge. Indeed, Josh Kun argues that “studying sound helps us put an ear to ‘the audio-racial imagination,’ which refers to the aurality of racial meanings, and to sound’s role in systems and institutions of racialization and racial formation within and across the borders of the United States.” We will investigate various recourses to sound throughout the African American literary tradition. We will read the work of literary Black figures (like Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, and Ann Petry) written during the Golden Age of Radio. Traversing the sonic colour line, we will develop new understandings of black aesthetics, literature, and politics.

**This course is repeatable for credit under different topic titles.

��ɫ��Ƶ Repeatable Courses
With repeatable courses, the course number (e.g., ENGL 466) is repeatable, but the topic is not. You can take as many topics as you like under the same course number, but you can only take each individual topic once. 

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